All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

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

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

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

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.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.