I just got here and Sassy's kicking me in the nuts.
As much as our military is a dismal pittence compared to the states, I can assure you that we have, by a long shot, one of the most determined and formidable fighting forces known to man kind.
Even though the fiberals tried in vain to pussify our forces. They have remained a group not to be recond with. The men and women that enlist in our military are, for the most part, not career hunting, as the liberal advertising campain tried to depict the Armed Services to be full of. Some are humanitarians, and believe that sometimes aid most be delivered with a shove. Others are warriors, it was in their very blood at birth to become a soldier. If you ask a Canadian soldier why he/she does what they do. The majority will say, "Because, umm. It's what I do"
I fall into the latter, so does my youngest boy.
The States, despite its massive funding is still allowing petty criminals to skirt jail time by enlisting (correct me if I'm wrong, please).
This all falls into the same quagmire as our National identity. We don't need to find or force it with the CRTC. We forged it in the fires of the bellys of the boys that marched off to the first world war(LWF), the Courier Dubois cut it out of the belly of the beast that was the Canadian wild and helped forge a Nation. The Homme de norde, mapped it as they carved routes through unchartered territory. The many Nations that exsisted here before them helped lead the way, (To their detriment, to some extent).
Do I believe Canada could be conquered, inpart or in whole. A resounding NO.
That very fire that burned in the hearts of every man, woman and child that stood and was counted, whenever strife raised its head, in years gone by, still burns in most Canadians. Be they old, young, man, woman, or recent immagrant. If you truely believe in freedom, that fire would ignite in them, with the heat of the sun.