I hate to tell you Kim that your little footnote in history was sooooooooooooo important that even JT forgot about you.  How does it feel that the man you "admire" now doesn't even know you existed?
As for Canada's "great peril" it is at the moment happens to be the Liberals from coast to coast.  The debt Provincially and Federally Liberals have created will cripple Canadian citizens of the not so distant future.