Canada’s Remembrance Day message places military training losses alongside the country’s wider remembrance of service and sacrifice. In a statement issued from Ottawa on November 11, Prime Minister Mark Carney recognised people killed or changed by their service, as well as those who spent extended periods away from their families.

The statement specifically commemorates Sergeant Morgan Wong and Privates Shaun Farrell, Aidan Goulding and Hayden Lykkemark. It identifies the four as Canadian soldiers who died while training at CFB Wainwright and acknowledges injured service members, families and colleagues.

The message is a commemoration, rather than a new account of the training incident. It describes the national observance at cenotaphs and frames remembrance as a continuing responsibility toward the people and freedoms being honoured.