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I suspect OP is saying that something like conscripting people to war wouldn't be popular today. I also doubt it would be popular with helicopter parents :)

• bawolff 5y ago
  It wasn't popular during either world war for a lot of people (from what i remember from my [canadian] high school history, quebec in particular wasn't thrilled about conscription)
  • rhodozelia 5y ago
    Thanks for your comment. In ww1 about 25,000 conscripted Canadians were sent over seas, in ww2 12,000. Many more were conscripted but didn’t leave the country. I didn’t realize Canada had conscription at all, or the divide between French and English.
  • jopsen 5y ago
    That's a good point.. But my impression was that it was more tolerated.. with an attitude like: "this is my war", as if every generation has a war to fight.
    • bawolff 5y ago
      At the end of the day, war is pretty different when its a plausible existential threat, instead of just going violent adventuring in some back water that had no realistic chance of ever hitting back.