At the end of our mandate, in 2014, it will be exactly a century since the Great War broke out on our continent. A dark period which was followed by the Second World War, one of the most dramatic pages in the history of Europe and the world.

Once the undisputed leader, Europe has fallen behind in the race to produce the very best cutting-edge science and has played a secondary role to the United States in the major post-war technological advances.

Once the undisputed leader, Europe has fallen behind in the race to produce the very best cutting-edge science and has played a secondary role to the United States in the major post-war technological advances.

In the eyes of a grateful country, their valour and heroism will never be forgotten (1520) [Translation] History recalls the name of the great battles of the first and second world wars and the Korean war.

In Canada, in this city, a great stone and iron monument stands as a national memorial to the too many Canadians who perished in that First Great War and the Second World War that followed it with indecent haste.

First of all, at the issue of war in the use of force, and in particular it focuses on those eight occasions in the last 100 years when the Canadian government has gone to war against other peoples, notably, during the Boer War in 1899; the Great War in 1914; the involvement in the intervention in the Russian civil war in 1918 and 1919; the Second World War in 1939; against Japan in 1941, the Korean War in 1950, our involvement in Desert Storm or the Gulf War in 1991; the Canadian government's decision to use force against the Somalis in December 1992; and of course the war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which is curre ...[+++]ntly ongoing.