Today The Predatory State, Or The Predatory

If A Man Has An Apartment Stacked To The Ceiling With Newspapers, We Call Him Crazy. If A Woman Has A Trailer House Full Of Cats, We Call Her Nuts. But When People Pathologically Hoard So Much Cash That They Impoverish The Entire Nation, We Put Them On The Cover Of Fortune Magazine And Pretend That They Are Role Models.

Of All Our Dreams Today There Is None More Important - Or So Hard To Realise - Than That Of Peace In The World. May We Never Lose Our Faith In It Or Our Resolve To Do Everything That Can Be Done To Convert It One Day Into Reality.

We Know Now That In Modern Warfare, Fought On Any Considerable Scale, There Can Be No Possible Economic Gain For Any Side. Win Or Lose, There Is Nothing But Waste And Destruction.

Whether We Live Together In Confidence And Cohesion; With More Faith And Pride In Ourselves And Less Self-doubt And Hesitation; Strong In The Conviction That The Destiny Of Canada Is To Unite, Not Divide; Sharing In Cooperation, Not In Separation Or In Conflict; Respecting Our Past And Welcoming Our Future.

It Would Be Especially Tragic If The People Who Most Cherish Ideals Of Peace, Who Are Most Anxious For Political Cooperation On A Wider Than National Scale, Made The Mistake Of Underestimating The Pace Of Economic Change In Our Modern World.