You are absolutely correct. Some fun Canadian facts, please keep them quiet:
Ontario manufactures more motor vehicles than Michigan.
RCAF fighters have recently (this century) taken over air defense duties in Alaska when USAF aircraft were grounded because of maintenance issues.
Canada has petroleum reserves equal to Saudi Arabia.
Canada, not China, is America's largest trading partner.
Canada is the second largest country in the world.
Canada has absorbed three waves of political refugees from the USA since the 1770's. No political refugees have fled south from Canada to the USA.
Canada and the US have enjoyed peaceful relations for almost 200 years, an unofficial world record?
The author briefly mentions Canada in WW I, but glosses over it..assuming that 50% of the then population was male, and maybe half of those were too young or too old to serve, then Canada's 600k represented about 35% of eligible males in service. There was literally almost nobody left at home to keep the country running..producing things..
The CEF was committed at the Somme ( Passchendale) and the vast majority of the 60,000 KIA occurred over a week. They gained about 3 miles of ground, and next spring, when the Germans launched their offensive, the Germans regained all the ground lost the peviosu year.
Amazing fact: At the end of WW II..Canada had the THIRD largest NAVY in the world..
You wrote:
“No political refugees have fled south from Canada to the USA.”
What do you call the Cajuns?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expulsion
Granted, the USA was not an independent nation yet.