N.B Teen Continues to Push For R.B Bennett Statue

The Facts: Some of the world's darkest days was in the 1930's during a worldwide servere economic depression preceding WWII. During those hard times, R.B Bennett gave Canada a sense of hope, although not through his personality but through his policies. When the depression first started to have an effect on Canada, Bennett immediately increased trade within the British Empire and imposing tariffs for imports outside the Empire. This decision resulted in moderately good success for Canadian business. During the depression and Bennett's time as leader Bennett promoted the minimum wage, unemployment insurance, health care and the regulation of banks. He signed the Statute of Westminster, making Canada fully independent from Great Britain in its decisions. He also founded the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (later the CBC) and the Bank of Canada. The policies that R.B Bennett brought into effect, has shaped Canada and has shaped us for who we are today.
In 2010, a teen by the name of Jordan Grondin 16, of Albert County, submitted a project about the former Conservative prime minister into a heritage fair in New Brunswick. The teen admired Bennett's work and was surprised to find he is not immortalized in Canada's capital. As the young history buff continued to do research , he found out that in fact a Bennett statue was ordered in the 1970's, but the design was deemed unsuitable for a national monument, and the idea was then abandoned.
Several months later the determined Grondin began to get signatures in support of having the statue erected on Parliament. After going to public events such as markets, musuems and fairs, he collected 1000 names, and then began calling local politicians. Jordan Grondin has received broad support, from all major political parties federally and provincially and it's now being taken to the House of Commons. In the past few monthas, Hon. John Williamson MP for New Brunswick Southwest stood in the house and told MP's that "the time for a statue of R.B Bennett is now." Now the possibility of having an R.B Bennett statue on Parliament Hill is quite great. Good luck to Jordan Grondin!