There was a comment on here in another post about Chicken shit Canadians, I feel I have to respond.
We are there when needed but not self promoters, not everything you hear in the news/internet or a Hollywood movie is true, there is more to life than what you see there.
In WW2, in the little province I am from, 49% plus of all males participated in the war between 1939-1945. When you consider the age of all males, that’s impressive?
100% of my uncles were active in the war, my Dad didn’t qualify medically for military, so at age 19 he joined the merchant navy in 1939, stayed on a tanker until 1945. He ran in convoys from Venezuela to Halifax and then to Europe for the whole war, supplying fuel all along the US east coast. He ran away from home to join and never made it back home until after the war, his mother died of cancer while he was away.
There is an old black and white news type movie about a convoy early in the war, it was before the convoys had a lot of protection. 4 or 5 U Boats surfaced in the middle of the convoy at night and sunk about one third of the ships. My Dad was in that convoy and saw several tankers blow up and crews die in the water set ablaze for the sinking tankers. He almost never talked about the war.
When the British came up with the idea of a small highly trained fighting force, what became the Devil’s Brigade/the Black Devils, they passed the idea on to the Allies, and it got ultimately set up in Montana by the US and Canada. The initial makeup of the force was 50/50 Canadians and the US. During the war the 1,800-man unit accounted for some 12,000 German casualties, captured some 7,000 prisoners, and sustained an attrition rate, wounded or died, of over 600%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Special_Service_Force
They were the forerunner of current elite fighting units in many countries. Canada’s unit continues to operate at a high level, their sniper unit has 3 of the top 5 verified long range kills including the current record of 3,871 yards in Iraq in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills
Did you know that 40% of US oil imports come from Canada? We have always been each other's largest trading partners as well.
Considering our population is about 10% of that of the US, I think we’ve held up our end fairly well when really needed.
I promise to be semi considerate. I will even start by telling you how much I love their fries and yellow mustard 
I didn’t know there was flights 340/440 and cats from hell allowed? 
Lol!
This isn't Nick's Garage, wristpin.
I owned a 318 a 340 and (2) 225 six cylinders. I did my part.
