Why elite Canadian and Australian formations risked overuse

How did Haig and other commanders regard the Canadian forces in the First World War?

They regarded Canadian and Australian formations as highly effective, but that status brought repeated hard assignments and a real danger of exhausting limited manpower.

The exchange begins with Glenn's recollection of a Canadian view that Canadian troops received especially dangerous assignments. Those assignments are attributed to the high reputation of Canadian and Australian formations, including German assessments before the 1918 offensive. Using effective troops repeatedly for difficult attacks risked exhausting a limited pool of replacements. Australia relied on volunteers, while Canada concentrated on keeping a small number of divisions at strength. The discussion also notes the recent British origins of many Canadian soldiers, complicating a simple division between British and Canadian wartime identities.