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Some info and stats
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/ft-vehicle-casualties.htm

As of November 17, 2007, there have been 666 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as part of ongoing coalition operations (Operation Enduring Freedom and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)): 398 American, 84 British, 73 Canadian, 28 German, 23 Spanish, 12 French, 12 Dutch, 11 Italian, 9 Danish, 5 Romanian, 4 Australian, 3 Norwegian, 2 Estonian, 2 Swedish, 1 Czech, 1 Finnish, 1
Polish, 1 Portuguese, 1 South Korean.

“Canada’s role in Afghanistan, consisting of operations against the Taliban and other insurgents in southern Afghanistan, has resulted in the largest number of fatal casualties for any single Canadian military mission since the Korean War. A reported total of 73 members of the Canadian Forces have died in Afghanistan between February 2002 and November 17, 2007. Of these, 65 were due to hostile circumstances, including 33 due to buried bombs[2], and eight were accidents or other non-hostile deaths.”

and from a 2006 article :

“Canadians are getting killed at a rate five times the average for NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, where _ Canada’s soldiers have suffered more than one-quarter of the combat deaths in Afghanistan this year...”Germany, with a contingent 400 soldiers larger than the 2,300 Canadians, hasn’t been involved in any fighting and has suffered no combat casualties.”
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*** it is not neccessarily the number of troops involved that counts...but the amount of sufferring—percentage of casualties according to the size of contingent—due to heavy fighting.