The war years rocketed Canada economically and politically into the modern era, from the disengagement and isolationist policies of O.D. Skelton and King to the activism of Pearson, Reid and others, and even reluctantly Louis St. Laurent, who came slowly to policies of constructive engagement abroad, breaking the wall built by Lapointe, Lapalme and Duplessis in Quebec that had married nicely with economic separation and disengagement and racism of the Social Credit and others in the West.
Les années de guerre ont projeté le Canada dans l'ère moderne, sur les plans économique et politique. Partis des politiques isolationnistes et préconisant le désengagement de O.D. Skelton et King, nous avons évolué jusqu'à l'activisme de Pearson, Reid et d'autres.