Understanding The Nature Of Conflict Leads To

The Best Defence Of Peace Is Not Power, But The Removal Of The Causes Of War, And International Agreements Which Will Put Peace On A Stronger Foundation, Than The Terror Of 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.

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.

Today Continuing Poverty And Distress Are A Deeper And More Important Cause Of International Tensions, Of The Conditions That Can Produce War, Than Previously.

A Great Gulf, However, Has Been Opened Between Man's Material Advance And His Social And Moral Progress, A Gulf In Which He May One Day Be Lost If It Is Not Closed Or Narrowed.