TORONTO, September 22, 2009—The National Capital Commission (NCC) approved the title "A Memorial to Victims of Totalitarian Communism — Canada, a Land of Refuge" for the monument to be built on national capital region land to the more than 100 million victims of totalitarian communism.
“We would like to thank the NCC for working with us to develop a title for the monument that does indeed focus on the victims of communism.” says Alide Forstmanis, Tribute to Liberty Board Chair. “We are happy that this part of the process is now behind us, and we will now be focusing our energies on the next stages–finding a site and proceeding with the design competition, and fundraising for all of that.”
Charles Coffey, Honorary Chair of the initiative, commented on the process of working out the wording for the title of the monument: “Probably the board members at the NCC, like so many Canadians, are simply unaware of the scope and scale of communism. This monument will help to change that.”
Tribute to Liberty will now embark on a fundraising campaign. Details of the campaign will be released in the next several days.
The National Capital Commission is the government agency that oversees the use and development of national capital region land. The memorial to the victims of totalitarian communism is a project of Tribute to Liberty working with founding partner The Open Book Group.
Carolyn Foster
Project Coordinator
Tribute to Liberty
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You are absolutely right. The original proposal submitted to the National Capital Commission by Tribute to Liberty called for "Monument to Victims of Crimes of Communism". This name was rejected by the NCC. In fact, they specified from the onset that they did not want to see the word "communism". Totalitarian Communism is also the name used in Europe (also after much negotiation) and therefore, the proposal was resubmitted as "Monument to Victims of Totalitarian Communism" with the hope that it would be accepted, which after a great public outcry & a lots of media coverage, it finally was. NCC is donating land for the project and a major fundraising campaign will now be started to raise $1.5 million of private money for the monument.
Totalitarian communism? ... Is there any other kind?
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