Party leaders delivered tributes in the House of Commons on Oct. 19 to honour four soldiers killed in a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta on Oct. 17.
MPs observed a moment of silence before Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed the House, saying it was “united in grief” over the tragedy.
Carney said the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members were conducting training when a sudden windstorm caused a nearby fire, which had appeared to be under control, to spread “nearly a kilometre, in less than a minute, to where the soldiers were gathered.”
The prime minister said the original cause of the fire is not yet known, and the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service is conducting an investigation with the support of the RCMP….