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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I agree that the battle really helped place Canada on the global stage as its own entity, and I don't think there is any question about the bravery of the Canadian soldiers.
I do find a lot of the rhetoric about it a little over the top though. The Canadians weren't fighting to save the world from evil or for freedom. They were fighting for British imperial motives. If we were talking about WW2, then I could see the altruism angle, although a big cause of WW2, and several post WW2 conflicts, was the way the aftermath of WW1 was handled by the allies.
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Actually when you get right down to it we were all fighting to regain a couple of French provinces they had lost in 1870, the war made no sense for the British Empire, we pretty well stumbled into it thinking the threat of involvement would keep the Germans in hand which was really the British ambition.