🇨🇦 Afghan War Memorial: Medicine Wheel Design, 14-Year Wait, No Vets

Canada's longest war gets a monument shaped like an Indigenous Medicine Wheel, announced at a ceremony where actual Afghan veterans were basically extras. Harper promised it in 2014. It won't be done until 2028. Fourteen years to build a memorial for a 12-year war. Veterans Affairs can't even say how many vets attended the groundbreaking, but hey, there was a livestream. Conservative MP Alex Ruff, who deployed twice, says his phone lit up with frustrated vets asking why they weren't front and centre. Answer: because Ottawa's performative reconciliation aesthetic matters more than honouring the 40,000 troops who actually bled in Kandahar.

This is the same government that can send $4.5 billion to buy a pipeline it wants to shut down in six months, but needs over a decade to erect a simple stone tribute. The monument isn't for veterans. It's for the Ottawa class to pat itself on the back while rebranding military sacrifice through the DEI lens.

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