Youth Indigenize the Senate of Canada before the committee. As the inaugural event was focused on celebrating National Aboriginal Day in Canada, the Indigenous youth leaders shared their success stories with the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. Andrea Andersen "Inuk from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut" Jacquelyn Cardinal "Nehiyaw from the Sucker Creek Cree First Nation on Treaty 8 Territory, Alberta" Perry Kootenhayoo "Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, now lives in Edmonton" Modeste McKenzie "Dene Métis from La Ronge, Saskatchewan" Tiffany Monkman "Métis from Winnipeg, Manitoba" Jennifer O'Bomsawin "Wendat and Abenaki from Odanak, Quebec" Stephen Puskas "Inuk from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories" Holly Jane Sock "Mi'kmaq from Elsipogtog First Nation"
Garden of the Provinces and Territories of Public Works and Government Services Canada, officially renamed the park. In December 2015, the federal government requested that the National Capital Commission approve the garden as the site of the proposed Memorial to the Victims of Communism rather than its previously approved site, a plot of land by the Supreme Court of Canada building. One quarter of the site is composed of formal terraces, with the flags of the provinces and territories in the order of their entry to Confederation. Bronze plaques include the floral emblems for each of the provinces and territories. A tall fountain symbolizes a tree.