Remembrance Day
I find it a shame that the newspapers, the press no longer do
enough . . . I find it sad that television hardly talks about
Remembrance Day . . . I remember that in the past, on
Remembrance Day, the Nouvelliste or the newspapers would have
a beautiful poppy on the front page, and the war . . . Today,
if we asked a journalist to meet with us, nothing would
happen. They go to the cenotaph and they take a photograph of
the cenotaph and that’s all. But they say virtually nothing.
They hardly ask the veterans to turn up. Today, there are
fewer and fewer but, all the same, it’s not right.
Particularly in Quebec, we are the forgotten ones. We walk
around with them, and the children ask us where we got the
medals. You know, there’s no history in Quebec. We know that
it’s not a nation of warriors. However, after what happened
in 1939-45, it seems to me that . . . particularly when you
look elsewhere, in the Western Provinces and in New Brunswick,
I saw people there and I visited there. They have stronger
feelings there for Veterans than in Quebec. In Quebec, we are
isolated. They hardly talk about us.
Interviewer – Why do you think that is?
Because for our governments here, it’s always the
English-French issue and the sovereignty issue. That killed
the little that was left. There’s nothing left. Our leaders
are not concerned enough about us and the newspapers don’t get
involved. The newspapers have dropped the issue . . .
almost completely.