In opposition to the Never Forgotten National Memorial Foundation's monument

I have made several vacation trips to Cape Breton Island from my home in Scotland, and told many people of its trails and charms. I am horrified that an area of such outstanding natural beauty, and a destination for recreation and renewal, will be spoiled by this unnatural and inappropriate monument.

Leave this cove untouched. Move the monument to Sydney.

The concept and the design is all simply, grotesque. The world is a better place without it.

As a former Park Interpreter who conducted public education programs at Green Cove I am totally and unequivocally opposed the idea of such a monument at this site. It's presence would forever alter the experience that people are seeking when visiting unique and natural habitats in our beloved Cape Breton Highlands National Park.

no. no. no. no. no. Not needed. Not wanted. Not necessary. Not appropriate . Not Canadian.

I feel at the very least that the project should be put on hold while public consultations are held.

It's ugly, despoils the landscape, and having glanced over the design report: it's not going to last.

Terrible, terrible idea.

a blight on the landscape!

important to have a monument but why in the national park?

It's like Stalin has never left the building.

The tragedy is, I really like big statues. But having a statue in the middle of the coastline seems like it will inspire no one, but merely serve the self-satisfaction of those who built it.

The proposed design for this monument is an eyesore and a blight on a beautiful coastline. It appears threatening rather than mournful, and that is not the face I want my country to point towards the rest of the world.

If you want to build a gaudy tourist attraction playing on war guilt, just build it in Ottawa or toronto.

This is a terrible idea.

A privately funded monument in a public park with little consultation, no general tender for design? This was done wrong from the start. Scrap it and start over. Or better yet just forget the idea. Feel free to put your private sculpture on your private land.

Beyond the prevailing issues pertaining to private profit and financial investment outlined in Heather Laskeys article , my grievance lies with the private sectors full artistic license in the design of a national monument of this magnitude, without a national call for proposals or a single formal public consultation. While even a chosen submission, carefully reviewed and approved by an established committee of professionals, will still have debate, at least it will have gone through a level of scrutiny to ensure a thoughtful outcome. Artists and architects, when approaching an opportunity to design a memorial such as this, would operate with careful consideration of site, context, and its contents, with intent on activating the landscape in a way that helps visitors to reflect. The Utoya Mass shooting Memorial, the 9/11 Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, and the Steilnest Memorial, are all products of a rigorous selection process, and demonstrate the potential impact a memorial for our fallen soldiers, could have on all Canadians. Memorial To Utoya Mass Shooting by artist Jonas Dahlberg http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/norway-mass-shooting-memoria… 9/11 Memorial by Architect Michael Arad and Landscape Architect Peter Walker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/…/07/stones-and-bones http://www.911memorial.org/about-memorial Vietnam War Memorial by Architect Maya Lin 1982 http://www.nybooks.com/…/a…/2000/nov/02/making-the-memorial/ Steilnest Memorial by Architect Peter Zumthor and Artist Louise Bourgeois http://www.archdaily.com/…/steilneset-memorial-peter-zumth…/ Article by Heather Laskey http://thechronicleherald.ca/…/1283419-profit-not-war-dead-…

National parks are about our land's natural beauty, and 25 million could be spent on so much more in Cape Breton, which would actually benefit the people of Cape Breton.

Not the right place for such a thing. Also ugly.

Tasteless!