"his tomb ensures that the 116,000 soldiers who gave their lives for peace and freedom in Canada will never be forgotten"

Codswallop, Daylia! They did NOT give their lives for peace and freedom in Canada. If the Germans and Austro-Hungarians had managed to win the First World War it would not have affected peace and freedom in Canada (or in the UK either) one iota. It simply would have caused a temporary readjustment of some kind to the general balance of several great powers in Europe (Germany, the UK, France, Russia, Italy, Austria-Hungary). France would have gone on being typically French, just as they did after losing the previous Franco-Prussian War. The British would have gone on running the British overseas empire, not much the worse for wear. The Germans would have avoided a humiliating social and financial collapse, their royal family would have continued governing in a constitutional monarchy, and the Nazis would never have come to power at all, and the Second World War would probably never even have happened. Russia would probably have still have had its communist revolution around 1917 and would have become politically divorced from western Europe. Austria-Hungary would have tottered on into an uncertain future in the 20s and 30s, probably facing more separatist movements in the unstable Balkans. Italy would have remained relatively the same as before, possibly losing a teeny bit of territory around its border with Austria.

The newly separates nations of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austra, Hungary, and Yugoslavia would not have come into existence at all after WWI, but would have remained as integral parts of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

The world, in fact, might have been considerably better off if Germany and Austria had NOT lost WWI, because it would not have sowed the seeds for starting WWII, a much more destructive conflict.

So who died to preserve peace and freedom in Canada? NO one.

Soldiers do NOT usually die to preserve anyone's peace or freedom. They just think they do, because everyone tells them so. They die, albeit unwittingly, to serve the purposes of great industrial/military/political machines which stupidly stumble into fighting each other now and then because they have mutually conflicting interests and not a terribly firm grip on higher moral concepts...such as "live and let live" and "let's share the cookie".

Not one Canadian soldier died at Vimy Ridge to preserve your freedom or mine. Not one. And it doesn't matter how many times people say they did, and repeat that old cliche...they didn't. They died innocently as pawns in the game of competing empires.