As a now-elderly Jew who as a child grew up in the dark shadow of World War II and the morbid horrors of the Holocaust, I was happy to hear that the previous, Conservative-led government of my country, the only Allied nation that had heretofore not established a memorial to the Holocaust, was prepared to launch such a memorial.

My husband and I were quick to respond as subscribers to the funding campaign that was initiated back then. Another government has since come to power, led by the Liberal Party of Canada. Under the current government the memorial was completed, and recently opened to the public, among much fanfare. The current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, took credit for what his predecessor, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government had initiated.

At the opening ceremony for the Holocaust memorial, there was Justin Trudeau and other government notables, including the minister of Heritage, under whose auspices the memorial falls. There too, were members of the Jewish community, heads of religious congregations, and a number of Holocaust survivors, all attesting to a sense of closure that Canada had finally erected such a memorial.

And then came the topper; this government led by 'progressive' liberals, which vaunts itself as inclusive; unlike the war years and the singular horrors of the Holocaust unfolding when Canada refused admission to Jewish refugees seeking haven, sending them back whence they came, to obliteration in Europe, this Canada invites global refugees to its shores. Justin Trudeau preens himself as Canada's sunny alternative to its neighbour's bleak, dark refusal to continue accepting migrants posing as refugees.

And although six million Jewish lives were extinguished during the years of Nazi Germany's fixation on exterminating Europe's Jews, the plaque on the newly-unveiled Holocaust memorial in Ottawa, the nation's capital, makes no mention of Jews. It does assert that countless men, women and children perished during the Holocaust; minority groups such as Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, the physically and mentally delayed, political dissidents and gays. Who were indeed persecuted, imprisoned and murdered.

But the six million Jews? There is Holocaust denial and then there is the more subtle averting of full recognition.

Senator Linda Frum: In Justin Trudeau's Canada the new Holocaust Monument plaque doesn't mention Jews, anti-Semitism or the six million.