This Toronto Sun piece leads with the anger and hurt families of victims of 9/11 feel toward Ottawa.

They lost people they love as did thousands of others in 2001.
Hundreds of thousands of people on parliament hill did stand, did grieve, and went back to their lives in 2001.
There is a plaque in Ottawa, no more, no less than most of us expect from a federal machine.

But I think the reporter buried the main point.
‘Outrage’ at Ottawa aside, grief and sense of isolation drove families to do much more than any government can.

St. Catharines’ Rudy Behring, a 65-year-old retiree, almost singlehandedly raised the money to build a little known but emotional 9/11 memorial walkway.

He spent 14 months going hat-in-hand to local businesses and raised $21,000 to build something in St. Catharines’ Happy Rolph’s Bird Sanctuary. The city donated $7,000 in labour.

The result is a tree-lined pathway on the Lake Ontario shore which features rose bushes, eight dedicated park benches and a bronze plaque for each victim with Canadian ties. A different deciduous tree was also planted for each.

“It’s been a lot of work but it’s been a work of love, a work of compassion,”

And a work of love and compassion is not something Ottawa can give.
But you could, and you did.

Thank you.