The peace-keeping ideal built on the ethos of early Canada's “stalling around” and “massing in strength” was meant for a world more worried about bush fires than a nuclear threat. Brian A. Brown, with the cooperation of H.R.H Princess Anne, collaborated to create Foresters: The Canadian Quest for Peace, a historical account of power shifts and the value of the public opinion. The volume examines how the public was the driving force of the country’s wartime actions and how the people lost this power in the twentieth century.