Quote:
"The film [Inside Fighting Canada] was making an important point. Audiences had seen in earlier
films how the Nazis were building their empire upon a modern form of
medieval slavery. Democracy built its defences with the voluntary effort of
people exercising their own free will. Here then was the implied
comparison between the two systems and democracy stood supreme.
Characteristically, no mention was made of conscription, which had split
the nation badly in the spring of 1942."
-- Gary Evans
Source:
Evans, Gary. John Grierson and the National Film
Board: The Politics of Wartime Propaganda. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
(p. 134)