"It’s the victims of communism that the memorial commemorates," she says. "Without the word ‘communism,’ the memorial will cease to have its intended meaning." Similar monuments, in Europe and in Washington, D.C., explicitly identify communism as the culprit in the millions of deaths they memorialize. She says her group is unclear on whether the monument can proceed, in light of the NCC’s concerns, but remains adamant that "the word ‘communism’ has to be in the name."
Beginning today, Prof. Luciuk and the descendants of some of the people who were prisoners there are hoping to fill in that missing chapter with a new fund that will support research and commemorative projects on the period. The fund was started with a $10-million endowment from the federal government and is designed to support a wide range of work, from scholarly papers to works of art or literature.
"It’s all about remembering," Prof. Luciuk said. "When I first started doing this research, I had people telling me this never happened. "
It’s been nearly a century since Canadian authorities rounded up thousands of immigrant families they considered enemy aliens and sent them to labour camps during the First World War. More than 8,500 people, mostly from what is now Ukraine, were sent to 24 internment camps across Canada between 1914 and 1920, because of their homeland’s links to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Many men were used for forced labour, and 81 women and 156 children lived in the camps. Despite the scale of the internment, little evidence remains. No known survivors are still alive and many of the official records were destroyed.
Wrzesnewskyj part of Parliamentary delegation to Ukraine
Ottawa – Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre) is part of an official Canadian Parliamentary Delegation to Ukraine led by the Honourable Peter Milliken, M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons. “This official visit by the Speaker of the House of Commons and three Members of Parliament comes at a critically important time for Ukraine. It follows on the threatening comments recently made by President Medvedev of Russia which were a direct challenge to Ukraine’s sovereignty. This trip signals Canada’s support for our countries’ ‘special relationship’ with Ukraine and I intend to use this opportunity to forcefully restate our support for Ukraine’s NATO membership. Besides high-level political meetings we will also be making a solemn visit to the Holodomor (famine/genocide) memorial,†said Wrzesnewskyj.
President Victor Yushchenko criticised domestic and foreign detractors on Monday and said Ukraine needed strong institutions to parry threats to its future prosperity.
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"I choose a strong state, strength and dignity, to put in their place not only our local feudals but also foreign overlords who want to set down how we should live," Yushchenko said in his 25-minute address. "I choose a full-fledged future for our country in the future of a united Europe."
For the second year running, several thousand servicemen paraded down Kiev’s main thoroughfare, Khreshchatyk Street, and about three dozen aircraft, fighters, bombers and large military transports, roared overhead.
Ottawa – Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Centre) is part of an official Canadian Parliamentary Delegation to Ukraine led by the Honourable Peter Milliken, M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons. 
President Victor Yushchenko criticised domestic and foreign detractors on Monday and said Ukraine needed strong institutions to parry threats to its future prosperity.