Well, "Native American" is a U.S. term, but Johnny Reb has a good point. Canadians were heavily involved and took very heavy losses in both world wars, (and entered them both YEARS before the U.S. did), as well as Korea and many more recent peacekeeping actions. But our reasons for going there are usually because someone (the U.N, the U.S., the U.K.-- long as it starts with "U" we seem to be willing to jump in) asks us to and we're too polite to say no. We have too much country to take care of already and don't need any more.

Right now, though, we are sending what's left of our Navy off to the Indian Ocean just in case there's something we can actually do there to help y'all smoke bin L. out. It's hard to tell how popular this move is at this point, since there was no debate in Parliament, the government of Canada just acted unilaterally to sign us on. This is a departure for us since we're not in the habit of tagging along on American ventures. (The Gulf War being the only other one in recent memory).

Just to clarify Johnny Reb's point though, Canada did not send troops to Vietnam, or participate in that travesty in any military way, and of course we gave sanctuary to draft dodgers and deserters from that era (which has enriched our social fabric considerably, a lot of them preferred to stay here after they had the option to return to the U.S.) Britain and Australia did participate in the Vietnam war.

Willie-O