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We didn’t get sent packing, we chose to leave, a very distinct difference. If anyone believes the Afghanis had anywhere near peer capability or forced us out they are delusional. If your argument as to why we should do less drill is because a bunch of irregular militias who routinely commit war...

Societies attitudes towards work is shifting, the requirements of the CAF are intensifying not decreasing however. Education and training is how you adapt recruits to the CAFs requirements because otherwise they will not be capable of doing so. Right now we are in a weird place societally where...

Recruiting is down for western militaries, I stated retention though, which is specific extra low in the CAF. It also lines up pretty accurately with when we stopped pushing our culture and identity. Substantially lower camaraderie, reduced identity with the organization, and a look at whats...

Creating identity, pride, and esprit de corps is important. Things like drill, traditions, and even limited hazing (not beating the crap out of someone or any of that nonsense, but making them earn a place) has value. The farther we get from creating that identity and more we focus on the CAF...

They should not be able to avoid consequences by resigning. To me we should make things like the police services act apply after resignation for offences committed on the job. Not only because of domestic usage but due to things like they did things that were illegal internationally on the job...

Shipwrecks like the above also attract scavengers simply for the pre-nuclear steel. For extreme precision radiation based machines they need pre-nuclear steel in construction because otherwise it can throw off the results. Unfortunately it is difficult to find large pieces of steel from before...

That is because of corporate welfare and our refusal to do anything about it. If the government went, fine we shall bail you out but for the next 5 years or until you pay back the amount given there will be no bonuses, dividends, stock options, salaries above ‘x’ amount, etc. these corporations...

From the NDA ‘Placing forces on active service 31 (1) The Governor in Council may place the Canadian Forces or any component, unit or other element thereof or any officer or non-commissioned member thereof on active service anywhere in or beyond Canada at any time when it appears advisable to...

We can order our Reserves to deploy as well, we just lack the will to do so.

Its worse than that. Canada has never had a good training system for the trades, those trained in Canada were either trained in WWII or through nepotism (close friends and family). The way Canada made up the short fall is by importing skilled tradespeople from Europe. Now the Europeans have a...

Don’t forget the fact we have a extreme shortage of tradespeople in this country which is only going to get worse in the coming years without a dramatic change in how we train them. I don’t see anyone with the willpower to fix that at the moment. We can barely keep up with the current industry...

Keep in mind those poll ratings are actually likely higher ratings than what they are. Right leaning people tend not to participate in surveys and tend not to favour Trudeau

What active army do you believe Russia has available to defend the northern border?

This is normal in most places. My workplace used to employ 180 front line workers, 10 planners, and 3 supervisors. Now it employs 40 front line workers, 10 planners and 3 supervisors. The current 40 front line workers are also less efficient than 40 of those 180 were because of constant...

Mongols were worse per capita, you have to remember the world was way under 1 billion at that point. It is estimated they took out 10% of the population of the world at that time.

The CFOs enforce the laws, and they have some latitude on how they choose to enforce it. One can be stricter on conditions, another can be less strict as long as all are operating within the limits of the laws. The NS CFO got in trouble for trying to shut down a range years ago because they...

Thats because you all are assuming that foreign ‘aid’ is meant to be aid. If you look at it as a way to bribe countries so we can do business, it makes a lot more sense.

How many people are in the officers cabins? The answer could be as simple as you don’t have 20 other people in a really small space and therefore isn’t as necessary as elsewhere.

Lack of quantity of regulations doesn’t always mean lack of scope. Those million regulations could all be relatively small in scope well our 89,569 could be massive in scope. Another thing to consider is that is just federal regulations, the provinces would have a significant amount of...

Exactly. There was many who it was a terrible thing for, but pre-USSR those people likely would have had a terrible life as well. For example the KGB is the direct descendant of the Tsars secret police force. They used to go and execute ‘enemies’ of the Tsar, pro-democracy groups, etc. The...