There's nothing more solemn than Remembrance Day, when we celebrate the memory of the Canadians who gave their lives in The Great War, so that the British Empire might survive.
Which it didn't, so a skeptic might wonder, what's the point? Well, the point is, the upper echelon of thought leaders today are totally baffled as to how they might entice the youth of today to die for our country. They seem to lack motivation to lay down their lives for our democratic way of life, which is about to be overrun by freedom-hating Persians, Koreans, Rooskies, and Chinese communists.
Fact is, they can't. And here's a big slice of the reason why. The vast majority of Canadian youth will never risk their lives to save their way of life, because their quality of life sucks shit! I think our Laurentian Brahmins might want to up their game a little before they expect a surge of volunteers at the CAF recruiting offices.
Things were different in the WW1. On July 1 of 1916, almost three hundred young Newfoundlanders gave their lives for the British Empire in a single day, and that at a time when the pop of NL in total was under 300k! That would be the equivalent of 40,000 young Canadians gone in a single day of war today, to save our democratic way of life???
Fat chance!
