Frosty poppies sit atop a tombstone on Remembrance Day at the National Military Cemetery in Ottawa on Nov. 11, 2021. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row, ...
If ye break faith with us who die/ We shall not sleep, though poppies grow/ In Flanders fields.
Brian Giesbrecht is a retired judge and a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.