{"id":36919,"date":"2017-01-15T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36919"},"modified":"2017-01-14T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T16:51:37","slug":"corporate-sponsors-should-have-no-place-at-national-memorial-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/15\/corporate-sponsors-should-have-no-place-at-national-memorial-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate sponsors should have no place at national memorial sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ted Campbell<\/a> reacts to the news that corporate logos will be included at the updated Vimy Ridge Centre:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not faulting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nor Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr for starting this, but they can and should put a stop to it. The business of getting the private sector to \u201csupport\u201d public projects is not new and, generally, the public, including me, approves of it: in almost all cases it is good to have commercial sponsorships \u2026 almost all. National memorials are different […] <\/p>\n

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The Welcome Centre of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France flying the Canadian Red Ensign ( 1868 – 1921 version ). This flag along with The Maple Leaf fly at national memorial as Canada was only using the Red Ensign at the time of the First World War Engagement.<\/p><\/div>\n

I don\u2019t doubt the generosity or patriotism of Bell Canada or WalMart are anyone else, but a few things have to be sacrosanct, and our national memorials honouring our war dead must be amongst them.<\/p>\n

Let is be very clear: it is the visitors\u2019 centre, not the memorial itself that is being rebuilt and I\u2019m guessing that the officials close to the project can see a very big difference between the little visitors\u2019 centre building and the memorial, proper, but I, and many others, do not and will not; If the see even an understated, dignified sign in the visitors\u2019 centre they will likely conclude that a corporation is, now, responsible for the whole monument. From the very first moment one sets foot on the land which France ceded, in perpetuity, to Canada it is \u201cour\u201d place, honouring our war dead and, more broadly, the significance of our contribution to the Great War. It is a small, $10 million, project and I am sure that officials will say that they are only trying to make the best use of their budget so that they can devote more to providing much needed care to veterans by spending less on this little building \u2026 and I would, normally, applaud them, but not on this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ted Campbell reacts to the news that corporate logos will be included at the updated Vimy Ridge Centre: I\u2019m not faulting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nor Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr for starting this, but they can and should put a stop to it. The business of getting the private sector to \u201csupport\u201d public projects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,7,5,246],"tags":[97,955,409,1089],"class_list":["post-36919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-history","category-military","category-ww1","tag-advertising","tag-canadiancorps","tag-corporations","tag-vimyridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Bt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36921,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36919\/revisions\/36921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}