MP Reid Reminds Canadians to Remember Auschwitz

OTTAWA – On his first day back in the House of Commons Scott Reid, MP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington made the following statement in Parliament:

“Mr. Speaker,

Last week, the world paused to remember the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

About 1.5 million people were murdered at Auschwitz. Those deemed to be too weak to work were sent immediately to the gas chambers. Those whose energy could be profitably extracted were used as forced labour and died of disease, starvation or exhaustion, or were gassed in their turn, once they had been used up.

In terms of raw numbers, Auschwitz was the largest cog in the Nazi machinery of industrialized death, which consumed over six million Jews and several millions others who were deemed by Nazi pseudo-science to be inferior, or by the Nazi bureaucracy to be undesirable or merely disposable.

Auschwitz serves, therefore, as proof that true evil is not mere wickedness, and is not simply the opposite of the Good. True evil is found wherever human beings are regarded as mere objects, to be used as needed for the attainment of some outside goal.

Let the memory of Auschwitz therefore stand forever, as a permanent reminder that the human family must never again allow true evil a place in any of mankind’s councils, or in any human heart.”

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Please call (613) 257-8130 or (613) 947-2277.

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