The CDA (Conference of Defence Associations) Institute recently published an open letter from 62 prominent Canadians decrying the dreadful state of the Canadian Armed Forces and calling for immediate action by the government to rectify decades of neglect.
The letter specifically called out the government’s failure to give higher priority to Canada’s defence and its failure to meet commitments to allies. The signatories of this letter included former chiefs of the defence staff, a retired Supreme Court justice and several past Vimy Award laureates.
The powers that be like to blame the military’s sorry state on the sex scandals that have plagued the forces and yes they play their role.
But the government’s neglect and ludicrous personnel machinations are at the root of it all, it just isn’t feasible to sustain morale or troop levels when soldiers, are denied a career path because of their sex and skin coulour, can’t afford housing & are faced with using obsolete degraded equipment.
That they have managed to alienate their prime recruitment pool is not considered a factor for some reason, at least not officially. Young white males are not desired by today’s forces, unless they are willing to shut up and sit at the back of the bus.
The CAF is now just a DEI make work project.
Problem is I just don’t recall any affirmative action army ever winning a war.
Diversity is not a strength when you invite immigrant groups who view an armed forces career as against their religion or whose loyalty is to the homeland they never really left behind.
