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The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development, delivered a keynote speech at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's Annual General Meeting in Charlottetown, P.E.I.
The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, issued the following statement today to mark the Canadian Police and Peace Officers' 37th Annual Memorial Service.
On September 22, 2014, first responders were called to the Niagara Detention Centre in Thorold and an adult male detainee was sent to a local hospital. The man passed away in hospital on September 27, 2014.
The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, today highlighted our Government's action to combat human trafficking while speaking to participants of the [free-them] Freedom Walk.
In 2006, three sets of skeletal remains were recovered by a young resident in the village of Hallu, France. The following year, another five sets of remains were recovered from the same area ¿ all remains being those of Canadian soldiers from the First World War and believed to be from the 78th Battalion, also known as the Winnipeg Grenadiers. Since 2006, the Directorate of History and Heritage has been working towards the identification of these soldiers.
Today Mr. James Bezan, Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of National Defence and Member of Parliament for Selkirk-Interlake, announced on behalf of the Minister of National Defence that the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) have succeeded in identifying the remains of four First World War soldiers found in Hallu, France, as those of Lieutenant Clifford Neelands, Lance Sergeant John Lindell, Private Lachlan McKinnon, and Private William Simms.