I'm right, everybody else is wrong

[Anonymous]

Damn right I'm Canadian.

At least our top guy can say "nuclear" and doesn't choke on pretzels.

And when we talk about americans invading Canada I guess we just have different priorities.  We'd rather take care of people when they're sick and educate kids instead of buying Tomahawk missiles and invading other countries for no good reason.

Why would we need an army anyway ?  We live close to a great lightning rod.

Just kidding.

Flame on.  Again.

And the most AWESOME thing is, the NYPD alone is bigger than the whole Canadian army.  Is this a cool thing, or a very sad pitiful thing? Discuss.

[Anonymous]

I wanna be a Mountie when I grow up

[Anonymous]

i wanna go over the canadian boarder and get stopped by mounties cause i dont have the swear words on the side of my truck in english and in french.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Run for you lives, the mounties are coming !

What a fear inspiring image.

As for the army size, it's really a question of numbers.   The population of Canada is about 10% of the population of the united states.  Last time I've seen numbers, there were 290 million americans and 29 millions canadians.  Just to give you an idea, Arnold (Aaaahhnold) Schwarzenegger governs as many people as our Prime Minister does.

So right there, if we had the same ratio of "soldiers vs civils" as americans do, the size of our army would still be a tenth of the US army.  

Since we're a peace loving people and really have no pretention to try and police the world, this ratio is pretty low.

I, for one, am glad that our army is this small.  Why buy the best slingshot to defend yourself when the next door neighbour has a M16 and that protecting you is in his interest ?  My taxes are high enough already, thank you.

The americans didn't have to invade Iraq.  A simple "Surrender Saddam or we'll unleash the canadians !" would have done it.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I hear that Canada is on of the safest places to live, Not sure where I heard that but meh :p

[Anonymous]

I've seen interesting numbers about that.

I lived in Tampa, Florida a few years and now I'm in Montreal, Quebec.

I came across crime statistics for major north-american cities a few months ago.  That included all kinds of crimes: car thefts, murders, breaking and entering, rapes, armed robberies, DUIs, drugs related crimes, etc.

Montreal and Tampa are about the same size in terms of population.  The number of incidents for each crime type, per 1000 inhabitants, was consistently around ten times higher in Tampa than it was in Montreal.

I thought those numbers were... interesting.

Where is Spiderman when you really need him ?

[Anonymous]

Err... Hit the brakes.

When did this topic become serious?

Canadians just can't get anything right.

[Anonymous]

Hey man.

I'm just trying to start a fire in the barn.

[Anonymous]

I believe that it is actually switzerland which is safest, mainly becuase they have effective gun laws, in that, every single one of them over 21 has one. At 18 they go into national service, and three years later, every man and woman leavs with a uniform and a rifle, therefore allowing Switzerland mobolise it's army within 24 hours, which is bloody scary.

[Anonymous]

Makes nice cheese, Switzerland.

[Anonymous]

You know what would be funny, if Canada decided to invade Turkey.

"We're taking this country over, and we are going to re-name it CHICKEN!"

[Anonymous]

Switzerland has everyone's money, of course they're the safest.

[Anonymous]

The best country is Lichtenstein.

So small that nobody wants to invade it.  Most people don't even know it exists.

If you sneezed on a world map, you might completely cover it.



I really miss Bennifer by the way.  Western civilization will never be the same.

[Anonymous]

A knights tale eliminated that idea. You want a really good country? Czechoslovakia.