Harper to attend Mandela funeral

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be at the state funeral on December 15th along with dignitaries from all over the world.

Friday, the Prime Minister paid his respects to Mandela by signing a book of condolence at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. There are similar books at legislatures across the country. Harper’s handwritten note said Mandela lived a life for the ages. Mandela was granted honorary Canadian citizenship in 2001, on his third and final trip here. In the last decade of his life, he continued to entertain visitors to his home, including Stephen Lewis, the former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations during the end of the apartheid era. Lewis says Mandela never forgot the support he received from Canada in helping gain his freedom and end racist, white rule of South Africa.