A former prime minister once said that the 20th Century would be Canada's. If the richness of the land, the imagination of its pioneers and the valor of her men and women in war had been enough, then indeed it could have been. Instead, with the fall of the British Empire and the rise of fascism and imperialism, Canada has been cast into the cold shadows of its southern neighbor, at once reliant and resentful of the United States of America.As tensions with Quebecois nationalism and Western alienation steadily grow, the political chaos of unstable governments with little popular support, and the economic shock created by her strongest ally in an attempt to secure their own people, Canada has been buffeted by the winds for the past two decades, a ship struggling to define itself in an unforgiving world.But as explorers once searched for a fabled passage to the Orient through the ice of the north, there is a hope, a dream, that Canada may just emerge from the present calamity, strong and free into its second century as a nation. It will just take a steady hand, a leap of boldness... and a bit of luck.