A Vancouver Island MP wants to create a day of remembrance to honour Canadian Armed Forces members who have died during peacetime on Canadian soil.
Courtenay-Alberni's Gord Johns introduced a private members bill Wednesday that proposes that October 22 become known as “Peacetime Service and Sacrifice Memorial Day” and that the flag on the Peace Tower be lowered to half-mast every year on that day.
The bill was introduced on the 11th anniversary of the death of 24-year-old Corporal Nathan Cirillo’s tragic in 2014.
He died while standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. Cirillo was shot in the back by a lone gunman who later stormed Parliament.