Originally Posted by
demon llama
I'm not so quick to stick it to allies who have died beside my brothers.
It's a major difference between you (and yours) and me.
Canada had the 3rd largest Navy in WWII and it's expeditionary ground forces were large enough to warrant their own beach on D-Day.
Their military contributions to Gulf War I and Gulf War II were considerably less enthusiastic.
"What have you done for me lately?" isn't kind, but it's not unfair to say that the miltary alliance of the US and Canada (visa va the former British Empire/Commonwealth), under whatever rubric/treaty/understanding you'd care to mention, definitely would suggest that the US does the heavy lifting. Rightly or wrongly.
It's not 1945, of course. But modern Canada is richer and has more men (3x more +) and GDP (12x more) to feed into the meat grinder in 2025 vs 1945; it chooses not to.
It's not unfair to notice it.