Canada, the Dead, and the Betrayal of the Social Contract

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
— Ronald Reagan

Four of my uncles served in the Second World War—Navy, Air Force, and Army. They did not fight for abstractions, narratives, or future moral fashions. They fought to destroy something specific: a regime so pathological that even today its name—Nazism—marks a civilizational boundary. They believed, as most Canadians then did, that some ideas are not to be debated, rehabilitated, or contextualized, but defeated. That belief formed the moral foundation of the postwar world. And it is that foundation—not merely a memory—that is now being quietly dismantled.

What They Fought — and Why It Mattered

Nazism was not merely another political ideology. It was racial mysticism fused with state terror and industrialized murder. The result was catastrophic beyond comprehension: six million Jews exterminated; roughly twenty-seven million Soviet citizens dead; tens of millions of Chinese killed under Japanese imperial fascism; and more than forty-five thousand Canadians who never came home.

Those numbers matter not as statistics, but ...