Frankly, I believe the Canadian government doesn't like to think of us as war fighters. It wants to think of us as peacekeepers. It has minimized our involvement in various things, such as the Medak Pocket in Yugoslavia. The government wasn't even talking about that when some of the Canadians were killed. It falsely claimed how they were killed, despite the fact it knew within hours how they were killed—things like this.
The Canadian government on both sides of the aisle, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't like to talk about us as warriors.