How many millions should they have spent on the all expenses paid trip to Ottawa for all the vets families from across the country, and would you then not have called them out for wasting money on a hollow photo op?
Who was proposing that? But they weren't even invited to come on their own. In fact, since the memorial is inside NDHQ, it appears the families must apply for security clearances to be allowed to pay their respects.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vance-afghanistan-war-memorial-cenotaph-1.5149094
OH... I assumed that it would be open ongoing as a publicly accessible venue.... no?
I can't say with any certainty, but I cannot imagine security concerns that have to cover everything from dynamite vests to boxcutters, and which rely on identifying risk at safe distances would ever allow free and open entry to the Canadian Forces and National Defence Headquarters. Even in more more peaceable times last century, when I lived and worked in Ottawa, NDHQ was not a place you could simply walk into.
