King, it is only by willful ignoring of the facts that it could be said Canada pulls it's weight in Nato, and elsewhere, militarily. We don't and we haven't since Trudeau the First gutted our military. We as a society, through the actions of our elected officials, have tacitly approved of the idea of letting the US carry the burden of our protection as a nation.

We are utterly incapable of even patrolling out own borders. The fact that we occasionally send troops into harms way in highly publicized and politicized ways doesn't change the fact of our national abdication of our own defense.

You seem to confuse the skill and valor of the few soldiers we deploy with living up to our responsibilities as a nation. They are different and unrelated things.

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