[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Bad poetry, to be sure. But spoken like a true coward. I doubt that "all" Canadians share this coward's opinion.

[68skylark]

Yeah, you're right. As an English major I gotta say the poetry is terrible.

Canada has the lowest defense spending (as a percent of their GDP) of almost any Western country -- certainly they are at the bottom of the NATO countries. For this they should be ashamed. If the author is trying to point out the problems of such paltry spending, then he's got a good point and I'll cut him some slack for his verse.