Ottawa ignored process in awarding contract for monument to Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, group says

[The Trudeau government so detests White people that it ignores a recommendation from a blue ribbon committee which recommended the lowest bid for a monument to commemorate the Canadian military mission to Afghanistan, submitted by a White Quebec firm, and gave the $3-million commission to an Indian artist instead. Plain and simple, it’s anti-White discrimination. — Paul Fromm]

Sarah RitchieOctober 5, 2023Updated October 6, 2023

An architectural group that was chosen by a jury to build a monument to Canada’s mission in Afghanistan says the government’s decision to award the contract to a different group is outrageous and anti-democratic.

Veterans Affairs Canada announced the approximately $3-million commission in June, awarding it to a team led by Indigenous artist Adrian Stimson.

“This is so anti-democratic,” said Renee Daoust, a spokesperson for Team Daoust, which placed first in the competition.

“They’re not respecting their own procurement rules that they have set up, and to us that’s really unacceptable,” she said.

The team included the firm Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker, artist Luca Fortin and former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour, who acted as an adviser on the mission in Afghanistan.

Daoust said they learned they won the competition just a couple of hours before Veterans Affairs Canada held a press conference on June 19 – and then they were told the government was going to overrule the jury’s choice.

“We said, ‘Well, this is so unfair. Why are you doing this?”’ she said. (Globe and Mail, October 5, 2023)