[steve_benjamins]

Most Western countries (not Canada) have opposed the last few major American conflicts, so "subsidizing" is an awfully generous way of putting it.

[ry0ohki]

American offensive activity has no effect on that fact that Canada is still counting on the United States to defend them in the event of an invasion.

[dragonwriter]

Plus, short of maintaining the high cost of global force projection that no one but the US has been paying since the end of the Cold War, no country is positioned to invade Canada except the United States (which, you might note, has been the source of all previous invasions of Canada.) Defending against remote invaders without US-like projection capacity is fairly cheap.

[grifpete]

That's pretty funny. I truly doubt many if any Canadians are counting on that.

[ry0ohki]

I have no doubt they take it for granted