If the US's success as a world power is attributed to the vast amount of resources across a huge span of land and...

If the US's success as a world power is attributed to the vast amount of resources across a huge span of land and manpower, and distance from Europe so it wasn't bombed to shit in WWII, why did Canada not also rise to prominence?

Canada did not, and still don't have as high population.

Freaking Uganda has a bigger population then Canada

because it is fucking colder and more isolated ffs

get back to basics

I feel the size of their populace played a part. While they have a vast amount of resources, they were not able to utilize it with manpower.

it's cold

Toronto is a great place to live and so is Miami (if you like cocaine), but the elite can't change the climate if they feel it is too hot or too cold, so they prefer places like New York.

So Canada just provided resources to NATO rather than becoming a superpower in its own right.

Canada has less hospitable terrain, hence lower population.

If the world was a few degrees hotter on average then Canada would be the US, and the US would be Mexico, Mexico would be Guatemala, and Guatemala would be on fire.

Not enough people.

Op, look at a globe sometime. Better yet, visit Nunavut or Russian Far East in the winter.

1. Canada was very much content to be a subject to the crown (except the Frenchies, they're never happy with anything though) limiting their development and expansion and discouraging "free thinkers" from moving there from the old world

2. It's climate is extremely harsh during winter and potential for crop growing low and only really suitable for sustaining a population, not for creating cash crops, limiting who went to live there. Now with Canada's interior farmland opened up that's not an issue, but in the 1600s and 1700s and 1800s the population was largely constrained to the coast and border with the USA.

3. It's cold as shit and people don't like cold.

Population matters to a point, and Canada never had enough of a population to be significant in global affairs as anything but a supporting country.

Not enough people, cold, little fertile land

wow, they really are America's hat

No the French have always been content to serve the crown.

Hard to say "the crown" limited Canada's development when it's one of the richest countries in the world, nor its expansion when it's the second largest.

The north isn't very developed because it's cold and the land isn't any good for farming.

What qualifies as success? Canada has a GDP in the same range as other successful, developed nations.

On the other hand, they're well aware that they don't have to invest in their military.

Assuming good relations with the United States, Canada is pretty much the most geographically isolated country in the world. It's thousands of kilometres of kilometres from any other country: why should it bother investing a lot in defence when it doesn't need to?

Cuck'd by Britian? Canadians can't be as violent and nationalistic as Americans? Who in the world is afraid of Canadians and excluding the ME when is the last time Canada fucked somebody up?

Can't speak for modern times, but the Germans feared Canadian troops as well as most Commonwealth forces on both world wars

german ww2 storm troopers were loosely based on canadian ww1 storm troopers

Nice propaganda, nigel