Awwww, geez...If no other Canadian will post it, I will...
Also feel free to utube the rest of the 'I Am Canadian' commercials just for the laughs. They are pretty darn funny. I like the attack beaver one myself
Anyways, onto a few facts about the WWII situation.
Majority of the uranium was actually taken from the Chalk River area in Ontario.
I can't recall the fact exactly but we either spearheaded farther inland then any other country or were the only country to accomplish all our D-day objectives...It could be both for all I know.
We were the FIRST commonwealth country to send troops to Britain in 1939. Considering the size of the commonwealth at the time, it's obvious we weren't 'forced' to go like SOME people on this thread believe. We went willingly...
How willingly? Over 40% of our male population (between 18-45), with the majority of them being volunteers, went to war during WWII.
If you're going to tell me the US rebuilt Europe, where were you to put out the fires? Canada sent over a VOLUNTEER unit of firefighters (only half professional firefighters and the other half were only given advice from the pros as their 'training') to help put out the flames in England. What's more dangerous? Rebuilding a country or trying to keep it from burning down?
After England lost much of it's fleet during the retreat, and therefore it's sailors, Canada actually crewed majority of English ships that were built for the RN (yes, thank you USA for building the ships so that WE could fight on them).
RN ships had booze on it...US' did not...Who's ship would you rather be on now, hmm?
Canada trained more than a quarter million aircrew during the war.
Canada also built the 3rd largest navy (in hulls) from scratch in 6 years (yes, USA likely led the way even though you look at the population sizes during the time you had the manpower, we did not).
The only war memorial in London commemorating foreign troops is dedicated to the Canadians.
Oh, also majority of your 'special forces' were bred from the Canadian version of it.
Now, by no means am I trying to belittle what the Americans did. I thank you wholeheartedly for what you did but considering the population size of Canada at the time, I think we do have a lot to be proud of, especially being the first western country to get involved.
I think right now too the US are allowed to visit Cuba again? You just can't bring home their good cigars?
I'm unsure if I told this story before, but it's one my father told me that I found pretty darn funny. He did a stint over in Germany during his reserve days (1970's I believe) and got leave to visit Holland with a bunch of his unit buddies. They couldn't find a single inn or hotel as they were booked solid for whatever reason. Well, they were trying to figure out what to do when a hotel manager asks them where they're from. They said Canada. The hotel manager says, 'oh, hang on, we have Americans staying here. I'll kick them out and you can have their rooms'.