Max Genest - The Stamp That Forgot What Remembrance Day Means

00:00:00.000 Today's Remembrance Day, the day we honor the Canadians who fought, bled, and died for this

00:00:04.740 country. And this year, Canada Post unveiled a new stamp to mark the occasion, featuring a Sikh

00:00:10.880 soldier. They say it's meant to honor Sikh Canadians who fought in World War I. But let's

00:00:15.800 be honest about this, in World War I, about 620,000 Canadians served overseas, and only around 10

00:00:21.640 were Sikh, and yet they're the ones being highlighted on this year's stamp? I do not

00:00:25.780 want to hear people go it's just a stamp because you are the same one who goes it's just a statue

00:00:30.940 it's just a street name it's just a picture on money it's just a national anthem well you know

00:00:36.440 what it's just your nation this is what happens when symbolism matters more than proportion

00:00:41.320 when the government cares more about diversity optics than about truth or sacrifice this is

00:00:47.800 what happens when a government mocks and tears down its own history when it spits on the graves

00:00:53.120 of the men who actually built this country. In World War I, men crawled through mushy mud

00:01:00.220 in the freezing trenches at Vimy Ridge, choking on gas and gunpowder. Entire platoons wiped out

00:01:07.480 in minutes. In World War II, boys barely out of high school stormed the beaches of Normandy under

00:01:12.560 machine gunfire to be gruesomely and vitally slaughtered. In Korea, they held the line at

00:01:18.000 Ka Pyeong against overwhelming odds. They fought through brutally cold mountains and monsoon rains

00:01:24.140 often cut off from supplies. In Afghanistan, troops patrolled dusty roads not knowing which

00:01:29.300 one was mined. To this day, those veterans still take their own lives because even though they

00:01:34.220 left that war, that war never left them. Back home, mothers opened their doors greeted by their

00:01:40.060 greatest fear, the words, we regret to inform you. Children were robbed of their fathers and now we

00:01:46.320 honor and remember none of that we were placed with ideology lies and forgetting why not honor

00:01:53.820 a real hero like leo major put him on a stamp he landed on d-day lost an eye refused to go home

00:02:00.240 and then deep in the night he single-handedly liberated a major dutch city occupied by the

00:02:05.440 germans one man one rifle one night by morning they were gone that's leo major that's grit that's

00:02:11.640 courage that's resilience that's loyalty that's a canadian that's canada that's who we are that's

00:02:16.020 what we're made of. The Germans couldn't believe how great we were. They started calling us

00:02:24.300 stormtroopers. Their own word for elite shock troops. Fearless, unpredictable, impossible to

00:02:31.140 stop. One German officer even wrote, these Canadians fight like Russians. We tore through

00:02:37.500 Hitler's SS in brutal close quarters combat. Flamethrowers, grenades, gunshots. It was raw

00:02:44.000 courage Canadians weren't just brave they were unbreakable our enemies didn't just respect us

00:02:50.200 they feared us our allies knew who the real leaders were we will not forget who we were

00:02:56.220 we will not forget our legacy we will not forget our soldiers and by God we will not forget what

00:03:01.780 this government has done our nation will put Canadians first and together we will take our

00:03:07.740 country back. Never forget that.

Max Genest - November 12, 2025