Hosted by Polish Congress Canada, the meeting was attended by such dignitaries as Secretary of State Hon. Jason Kenny, Pavel Vosalik, ambassador of the Czech Republic in Canada and Piotr Konowrocki, consul general of Poland in Toronto.
The meeting included an invitation to Kenney to designate land for the monument, which is to be erected in Ottawa, and a call for the creation of an international committee to facilitate the realization of the project.
In delivering the opening speech, Kenney singled out a gentleman in the audience from North Korea, "arguably the most brutal regime in the world today."
"Your presence here tonight reminds us, when we speak of the victims of communism… we don't speak simply about the victims of before, but more importantly we speak about the victims of the present who live today in prisons, in Gulags, in re-education camps; who suffer from persecution, imprisonment, torture, and still sometimes murder.
"We owe it to those people to make this project, this dream, a reality."
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