You Yanks should’t base your judgment of Canada on a panty-waist PM like Trudeau, any more than we judge America based on your panty-waist President Obama.
The Canadian military has a proud history, in spite of recent social engineering of the same type that is infecting the US military. The Canadian Army was on the doorstep of Rome in 1944 when the Americans were still crawling along the coast from Anzio (and had to wait for two days to permit the Americans to set up the camera crews for the entry to Rome). Had Clarke done his job and cut off the German retreat, instead of grandstanding towards Rome, the war in Italy would have ended months earlier and freed up troops for the push through France and Holland. Many thousands of American, Canadian and British troops died needlessly in the mountains north of Rome because of Clark’s stupidity.
The average Canadian outside the major urban centres is small-c conservative. Unfortunately the waves of immigration (95% of which ends up in a handful of major cities) have greatly reduced our ability to influence national elections. Don’t p*ss on your friends.
Our military is exceptional DESPITE decades of neglect. After the liberal destruction and Harper arrived, we needed 10% year over year budget increases just to keep it up to snuff. Even Harper didn’t manage that.
Sadly Canadians are not made of the same stuff as those in WWII. And I agree this importation of Syrians is going to destroy us.
Have you actually read my post? On the fight against Hitler, what I posted was similar to what you said.
Since Hitler, however, on defending the free world, there is little comparison of what America has done. I would hope Canada has done more than post 25 has it: two mounties, five canoes, and a flying squirrel.