Prime Minister Steven Harper certainly endeared himself to Polish Canadians by attending a memorial service at Maxi Million Kolbe Church in Mississauga, Ontario, honouring the victims of last week's catastrophic plane crash that took the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and almost 100 other dignitaries. The contingent crashed on Russian soil, near their destination of the Katyn forest, where they were to attend a 70th anniverserary of the brutal mass slaying of 22,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia in 1940. Harper's statement that “When Poland grieves. Canada grieves” was poignant and appreciated; a tribute to the many Polish contributions in North America.
