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A few reasons. The Canadian military has always been "prissy" about who they let in the combat arms area. EVEN MORESO than the British if you can believe!
In the old days you had to be of proper background, have an "inside track" (still a rule today, its not what you know, it's who you blow, in CF) and of the right "race".
It's still that way to day with the race card the other way around.
Our Canadian Ace of Aces in WWII got all but 2 victories in the RAF, the last 2 in the RCAF. Seems when George Buerling tried to join the RCAF in 38' his school marks weren't quite up to snuff! Well tell that to the 39 Axis pilots he smoked! Then the RCAF "let" him join and immediatly put him on a PR tour, which he HATED!
Here's a link to his bio for any interested...
Also Canadians in general seem to be quite adventurous as a people...even today, might have something to do with having so much wilderness still. Flying is a dangerous occupation even today. Maybe Canadians were just more "willing" to do it.
Now days to be a fighter pilot you have to be
A) Bilingual (speak french...yuck!)
B) Very Very good grades
C) Ready to suck ass and "bluff" many review boards. (hint: don't tell em you WANT to actually be in combat, they want sissies who just want flying hours for a commercial career now)
Anyway when the S#!^ hits the fan again, i'll be joining the RAF (they'd take me now if I was a British citizen, someone told me it's not to hard to become one). I think they are much less "prissy" than Canadian Brass.
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