Don’t know why they need taxpayer dollars for it… But better for that, than a Bethune memorial…
The application for funding comes as the Conservative government defends the $2.5-million spent on a visitors centre honouring Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian surgeon who treated soldiers in Mao Tse Tung’s Red Army in the defence of China against the Japanese invasion in the 1930s.
Some critics say the Bethune memorial, in Treasury Board President Tony Clement’s riding, was tantamount to supporting communism and insensitive to those killed under Mao’s rule.
