The Dominion Institute petition was successful. Canoe is reporting that the “House of Commons unanimously approved a motion Tuesday asking the government to offer a formal state funeral for the last Canadian veteran of the First World War.”

You can read the press release here.

This isn’t to say that the last surviving WWI veteran will have a state funeral, only that the offer of a state funeral will be made to the family members upon his death.

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