It’s times like these where we, as Canadians, usually rise to our challenges.  Sorry, where we always rise to the challenge in front of us.

We were there at Queenston, at Chateuguay, at Ypres and Vimy.  We more than showed up for Italy and Normandy, and even Dieppe speaks to our courage in the face of overwhelming odds against, some of those odds courtesy of our friends, the British.  We fought and won the Battle of the Atlantic.

Were among the most-feared and most respected in Afghanistan, and lost over 150 good people in that demonstration of resolve.

We fought the Americans twice, in the Revolution and War of !812 and turned them back both times.  We fought the Kaiser’s army in World War 1 and earned the reputation as “shock troops” by the Germans who were always carefully aware of where the Canadians were along the front line.  We fought the best the Nazi’s had at Juno, up through Normandy and into the Low Countries, and liberated Holland before joining the Allied thrust across northern Germany.  And we chased the Taliban off of every battlefield in which they faced us.

So, in short, we’re more than up for the most recent challenge, economic war against the United States.

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