I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.