In 1963, the matter became more prominent when the federal Cabinet announced a plan to have a national shrine of remembrance built at Nepean Point to house the Books of Remembrance[67] and a cenotaph to commemorate "the service and sacrifice of the veterans and war dead of all wars."[68] Architects from Toronto and Quebec City were asked by the Cabinet to draw up plans for such a memorial complex and the announcement was made on 19 February 1963 by the Minister of Public Works, Davie Fulton, that the project would be completed for the Canadian Centennial in 1967.[67][69] However, this plan never came to fruition, as it was denounced by some of the media, various organizations, veterans, a large number of Canadians,[70] and eventually parliamentarians, even in the governing Liberal Party.[71] The meaning of the war memorial in Confederation Square had shifted in the public consciousness;[6][68][72] through its location in downtown Ottawa, renovations to Confederation Square to further highlight The Response, and its constant use as a site for national Remembrance Day services (especially through the Second World War, as Canadians were dying overseas), it had come to represent in the Canadian collective consciousness all of Canada's war dead.[73]