That's true.
But the anti-war era was arguably the most democratic time in Canada's history.
That's why democracy is always made by people and unmade by backroom corporate guys.
But at least a large percentage of everyday Canadians strongly opposed the war and the anti-war movement was the inspiration for many liberating progressive changes in the era of 67-73.
  The anti-war era, together with Canada's generous social programs, Canada's medicare system and Pierre Trudeau's free spirited anti-Americanism, did raise Canada's profile on the world stage. That was the time when a maple leaf decal on a backpack anywhere in the world made young Canadian travelers very welcome.

 Democracy is made in the streets. unmade in the marketplace, undone in Parliament.