Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws, Hutchison wrote around that time, the writers who make our books, the artists who make our pictures, but in gauging the true culture of the nation and reckoning its tensile strength, let the student not neglect hockey

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.