Victory Day would honour 55,000 Canadians

Dear Editor

With the anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, the time has come to rename the long weekend in May to Victory Day to commemorate this event.

We have a war memorial to the First World War, but a mere plaque to acknowledge those 55,000 Canadians killed or wounded in the last conflict.

The relevance of the current monarchy is dubious at best, thus there is no good reason to keep honouring deceased members of the English aristocracy. We do not have and do not want a class system in Canada and have banned Canadians from English titles more or less since the Nickle Resolution of 1919.

Quebec has already renamed the weekend and our retention of the name only reaffirms our mentality as colonial.

Remember Dieppe? We owe the English nothing.

Richard Gibbons

North Battleford