Sentinels stand guard during the Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Nov. 11, 2020. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Commentary
“If ye break faith…” People have tried to twist “In Flanders Fields” various ways, including into a pacifist manifesto, though they haven’t yet started changing the words as if it were our mere national anthem, or calling the cemeteries stolen land. But when today’s politicians put on poppies and feign reverence, I fear the dead rest uneasy.
John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
