I've trained with Canadian troops several times, and while I respectfully dispute with Celtic Lord his statement of Canadian troops being better than American troops, I will most definitely maintain they were at least as good as ours. They LOVE being soldiers, work hard, and, Lord, play hard. Americans couldn't ask for better allies than Canadian troops. (well, ok, and Aussie, Brit and Kiwi troops, too!!!)
Unfortunately in the recent past they got some of the worst posts imaginable – acting as walking targets – I mean “peacekeepers” in places like Bosnia and Rwanda. Thankfully they are finally be used as soldiers in keeping the insurgents under control in Afghanistan.