The second chapter of A Quiet Reckoning traces how post-war Canada built peace as infrastructure — radar lines, hospitals, pensions, and trust. Our quiet Cold War wasn’t fought with bluster but with systems that bound a country together.

The opening chapter of A Quiet Reckoning revisits Canada’s Centennial confidence — when the Confederation Train carried a nation’s story across the country — and asks what it would take to build that boldly again. From postwar hope to today’s quiet revival, it traces the echoes of what Canada built, what it forgot, and what it still can be.