Embassy, July 9th, 2008 / NEWS STORY
While largely symbolic, the move will allow Canada to share the way its different jurisdictions teach students about the Holocaust, and take away lessons learned from the task force’s 25 other member countries.
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Alykhan Velshi, a spokesman for Mr. Kenney, said the Conservatives took steps to join the task force almost immediately after becoming the government.
“It’s important, first of all, to ensure the Holocaust is properly taught and commemorated within Canada, but also it is an opportunity for Canada to share its best practices with other countries,” Mr. Velshi said. “What it also does is it commits the government of Canada to build on its own record.”
As part of this commitment, the Canadian government has already undertaken plans to officially commemorate the “St. Louis incident,” when, in the summer of 1939 just before the Second World War broke out, a passenger liner carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees was turned away from Halifax’s Pier 21. An estimated one-third aboard would lose their lives in the Holocaust.
Mr. Velshi said funding for the commemoration of the St. Louis incident will come out of the Historical Recognition Program, a multi-million dollar program created by the Conservatives in early 2006.
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Ismailimail 
This is a very worthwhile endeavour for an Ismaili to be involved in given the historical realities of the treament of Asians(many of whom were Ismailis) by Idi Amin in Uganda in 1972 as well as the genocide against Shia Ismaili Muslims during the Alamut Period in 13th century Persia.
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