Don’t forget that by the end of WW2, Canada had the 4th largest naval fleet in the world. Today? Why pay for Defense when USA will protect them no matter what?
They literally are “America’s Hat” now. Token contributions in our poorly-done occupations and that’s it; between extremely virulent liberal-socialism* and economic monkeyshines they literally CAN’T do more.
*My church is on the verge of classifying them as ‘a nation hostile to the beliefs and teaching of Christianity’...a status normally reserved for 3rd-world nations that will literally throw you to the lions.