“This might be the thing that saves you
I mean this next part with everything I have, because I’ve got family and friends and forty years of memories on the other side of that border, and I know most of you didn’t sign up for this any more than we did.
Canada didn’t go to war in 1939 because we hated Germans. We went because someone had to hold the line until America was ready to show up, and it took two years and a Japanese fleet to get you there. We held it. Then you came, and together we ended it, and the world you built after 1945 was the best one it’s ever had.“