John Lee wrote:
> And of course, sharing a border with the USA is a built-in self defense, 
> so I don't blame Canada for not spending large sums on a military.

That's true.

We don't expect an attack from the south. It's our soft underbelly.

We don't expect a major attack from anywhere. Our strategy is to try not to 
piss anybody off.

Within Canada, our military shows up more as a disaster relief organization. 
They show up at  various floods,  forest fires, and maritime rescue 
operations and seem to do an admirable job.

Externally we tend to favour a policing action. This guy named Lester 
Pearson won a Nobel prize for this approach. It might not always work but we 
try our best.

Bruce

PS. I don't know if the reference to South Park and "blame Canada" was 
intentional or not. :-)

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