WHATS AHEAD FOR CANADA? "If we know how to swing the gate, the close of war...should open for us an era of well-being never known before" May 1 1943 STEPHEN LEACOCK WHATS AHEAD FOR CANADA? GENERAL ARTICLES "If we know how to swing the gate, the close of war...should open for us an era of well-being never known before" STEPHEN LEACOCK I HOLD very little with postwar planning. It’s a poor substitute for war courage and war effort. Carry it too far, into too much detail, and it’s dangerous—elaborate committees sitting on “reconstruction,” playing chess without a board, as drowsy as a Royal Commission. How do we know what there will be to reconstruct? That way lies wandering from the path—a little slumber, a little sleep, a little folding of the hands to sleep . . . and we know what comes then . . .