In 1932 and 1933, Joseph Stalin’s Soviet regime inflicted a deliberate famine across Ukraine. The Holodomor — ‘death by hunger’ — was a genocide that starved millions of innocent Ukrainians. In the face of these horrors, Ukrainians endured, protecting their language, their culture, and their identity. When Canada recognized Ukraine’s independence 33 years ago, we knew then what we reaffirm now — that Ukraine must remain free and independent, and its future must be decided by its own people. Вічна їм пам’ять. Vichna yim pamyat.