Young Canadian’s Ignorance of their own history.

I don't think people understand the degree of ignorance of Canadians on the subject of World War II, I don't think they understand. And I always in my talks to people end up giving it an illustration, the article that was in The Globe and Mail in the Spring of 1995, written by a lawyer in Toronto who had been asked to give a lecture to the graduating class of Harbord Collegiate in Toronto. The class had all been accepted, this class, had been accepted for the Toronto, University of Toronto Law School. So these were the future Supreme Court judges, because that's where they had come from, of Canada. And he was asked to give a lecture on the Nuremberg Trials. Well, this being the most sophisticated piece of jurisprudence in the history of mankind he thought he should find out what these kids knew about the trials and their origins of the Nazi Party etc. He found they knew nothing. They had never heard of World War II. He starts asking them questions like, "Have you ever heard of Joseph Stalin? " "No." "Have you ever heard of Winston Churchill? " One kid put up his hand, and he said, "Oh well would you tell the class what you know about Mr. Churchill." The kid said, "I don't know anything about Winston Churchill, it's the name of a street in Toronto." So at this point he abandoned the idea of discussing the Nuremberg Trials, and decided to go into, to take the hour to explain the origins of the Nazi Party and the origins of the Holocaust and the origins of World War II. Well these kids never had, had never had been exposed to any of this. So they were fascinated with this and they started throwing up their hands asking questions so he ran out of time very, very quickly, the hour was up. And on the way out one of the kids, boys said, "That was very interesting, sir, but what's it got to do with Canada? " He had forgotten to mention that Canada had gone to war. Now those are our Supreme Court judges and by now they're out in, either practising law or in, you know, in the, the training they take, on the job, as is were. Article. Their either, they are already there, but they never heard of Winston Churchill.