One Navy

The navy has evolved over its one hundred year history, and must keep evolving. But it is one navy, with one institutional memory, a fact that unfortunately gets undermined and lost everytime we rename it and disassociate it from its original, authentic, proud, noble and rightful identity - the Royal Canadian Navy.

I remain absolutely convinced that our serving and future naval men and women would find it a distinct honour and privilege to be associated, identified and reconnected with such a proud and noble legacy, and would want to be associated with the memory and deeds of our veterans, and would want to preserve their sacrifice within the institutional memory of a shared and common identity. The hundreds of messages sent by serving sailors to Senator Day indicating the preference for RCN, would seem to be evidence of just that.