Canada’s Ignorant About The Military Despite Huge Budget Requirements -- Matt Gurney, National Post
“When I was a historian for the navy,” laughs Roger Sarty, ‘‘when I’d tell people what I did, most of them didn’t realize Canada had a navy.”
Mr. Sarty, a military history professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, laughs again. “These were smart people. Knowledgeable of current events and the government. But the military never crossed their minds.”
Mr. Sarty is saying what every soldier, sailor and airman knows: Canadians support their military, but they aren’t particularly interested in it.
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My Comment: I concur with this analysis. I live in Canada, and the disconnect between the public and the military is quite startling. As to our politicians .... the want a military but not the cost and the responsibility of maintaining it and being accountable for it.