Canada Ping!
Harper commemorates 100th anniversary of WWI - August 4, 2014 - “Our commitment to values has never wavered,” he told the crowd at the Canadian War Museum, referring to Canada’s heavy contribution to the conflict in Afghanistan.“That's why we intervened after September 11, 2001, when freedom fighters attacked the terrorists who seek to destroy us,” he said.
“And it is why today, we stand once again beside friends and allies whose sovereignty, whose territorial integrity – indeed, whose very freedoms and existence – are still at risk....”
“Amid the appalling loss, by any measure, Canada as a truly independent country was forged in the fires of the First World War,”
It wasn’t independent. It was automatically expected to come to the aide of their “king-emperor” in Britain.
There was no Canadian army like an American one. They were just part of the British Imperial army. No different than the Indians, Africans, Australians, or Asians.
I get what Canadians say when they talk about this, but I don’t know why they keep trying to phrase it like they totally got into the war independently for some high-minded idea, or that they became an independent nation in the process because they basically did the same thing again in 1939, just waiting a couple of days to make it seem like they weren’t sure.
Not to take away from their efforts, I just never get their habit of straddling the line between saying they are an independent nation and being the only place on Earth that really wants to still be part of the British Empire.
Canada Ping!
given the casualties for the little gain, i hardly consider them victories. than again the pommie bastard generals were utterly incompetent on the western front.