Some poetic license...in my demographic (so named), it looms large. Was it important like the War of 1812, or the FLQ crisis? No. But if you've followed the coverage this week, I think you'll agree that remains an extremely resonant benchmark.
Here are the results of a poll (conducted by the very official sounding "Dominion Institute"--they ran a supermarket chain, too) that places it fifth:
― clemenza, Friday, 28 September 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link