Government of Canada proud to support Holodomor National Awareness Tour – Canada News Centre

Likely one of the larger grants under the program which has an annual funding envelope of about $8 million:

The Holodomor, otherwise known as the “terror-famine in Ukraine,” resulted in the deaths of millions of people in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932-1933. The famine was the direct result of a planned repression of the people of Ukraine for massively resisting the Stalinist state’s collectivization.

Canada became the first country to officially recognize the Holodomor genocide in 2008.

The Canada Ukraine Foundation will receive an investment of $1,459,728 from Citizenship and Immigration Canada for the cross-Canada tour. The project will educate Canadians of all ages and backgrounds on this tragic historical event and highlight the importance of our shared values of freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

The Tour, which is anticipated to begin in the spring of 2015, has also garnered support from organizations such as the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium.

Government of Canada proud to support Holodomor National Awareness Tour – Canada News Centre.

As noted earlier, compares to $50,000 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Canadian flag (Feds to spend $50,000 for flag’s 50th birthday celebration). Perhaps an effort to smooth over some of the Ukrainian Canadian community criticisms over the Canadian Museum of Human Rights (Canadian Museum for Human Rights – More Dissent).