Mr. Godfrey, well said, I think.
With regard to your analogy to the Second World War, that war began with the German invasion of Poland, as you know. One knew, or at least most people knew, that within days we would be facing a potentially catastrophic life-death struggle. Unfortunately, the appreciation of Canadians as a whole that we may be dealing with a life-death struggle is not remotely analogous in terms of perception.