In February 1998, Canada was the first NATO country to ratify Polish accession to the North Atlantic Alliance. Canada has become a leader among NATO countries in language and peacekeeping training in Poland, with hundreds of Polish officers and senior general staff having received training in Canada and Poland.
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Sometimes Feliks wondered – if Canada was such a pushover, then how come he was, like, always there before America? Shouldn't he be waiting to see what his brother did before he decided anything?
Actions totally spoke louder than words.
Plus his house was really nice. It was kinda freaky big, but he had these awesome bottles of syrup shaped like maple leaves and this bear that was, like, super cute. He'd never seen a talking bear before. It even knew his name and everything! Not to mention the hockey sticks on his walls. Feliks was sure it said something about a man when he kept a large collection of gigantic wooden sticks that he used for beating people. (Okay, so, like, he said they were supposed to hit the puck, but Feliks had totally seen people play hockey and he had eyes – that was so not what they were doing).
And there was a moose in his backyard.
Blinking, Feliks slid open the window to the guest bathroom, toothbrush poking out of his mouth and hair still sticking out in a few directions from where he'd slept on it. Wow! That thing was, like, huge! Canada should totally learn how to tame them. If his soldiers rode something with antlers like that around they'd be, like, terrifying. He leaned a little further out of his window.
The moose snorted.
"Oh I am so doing this," Feliks concluded with a grin. Then he quickly finished up with his teeth, ran a comb through his hair, and hopped out of the window.
Half an hour later he got a good opportunity to admire Canada's health care services, too.