… The frantic evacuation of Canadian citizens from Sudan brings to mind the Lebanon strife of 2006. At that time, 15,000 Canadians were rescued from Beirut and Tyre during Hezbollah’s conflict with Israel. It was later reported later that 7,000 of that number had returned to Lebanon within a month of being evacuated. It’s estimated the cost of that exercise was $85 million.
Canada’s top soldier received a memo from his advisory body in August 2021 telling him that imposing a vaccination mandate under threat of discipline would “not constitute informed consent.”
“Medical ethical restrictions prevent CAF [Canadian Armed Forces] Health Services personnel from administering vaccines without the informed consent of the recipients. Coercion of CAF members to accept vaccination under threat of military discipline would not constitute informed consent,” the memo reads.
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.
Flying low over the desert at night, their helicopters’ lights out, U.S. Navy Seals zipped in and out of Khartoum on April 23 to safely extricate its diplomats from a country on the edge of destruction.
The United Kingdom pulled off a similar operation, while countries such as France, Germany, Spain, and Italy have also worked to evacuate their people safely from the capital of Sudan, where government troops are under attack from paramilitary insurgents.
An open letter, signed by former defence ministers among more than 60 former senior public servants and military and security officials, has been issued by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDAI), warning that Canada is failing to live up to international expectations for military spending.
The April 16 letter came just days before an April 19 Washington Post report that alleged Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials privately that the country will never meet the spending target agreed to by the alliance’s member countries.
Canada’s “woeful” military readiness underscores the urgent need to boost defence spending and meet its commitments to NATO as the alliance confronts the most dangerous global security environment since the end of World War Two, former Canadian defence officials say.
Without doing so, they say Ottawa could risk pushing away its security allies.
The Canadian prime minister has arrogantly thumbed his nose at the rest of the free world for years
Say what you want about former US President Donald Trump, but his insistence that all 31 Nato member states meet a 2 per cent target of GDP spending on defence was wise. This simple, straightforward request ensured each member was firmly committed to playing an equal role in this important military alliance. They would defend the safety and security of democratic countries from rogue states and totalitarian nations as a strong, united and cohesive unit.
One Nato member apparently isn’t willing to pull up its bootstraps when it comes to meeting the defence spending target. Embarrassingly, it’s my country – Canada.
More than 50 of this country’s former top security officials, military commanders and politicians — along with a former top Supreme Court justice — have signed an open letter imploring the Liberal government to take national security and defence more seriously.
The letter was released Monday by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDAI). It includes the signatures of five former Liberal and Conservative defence ministers, nine former chiefs of the defence staff, four former ambassadors, two former top national security and intelligence advisers, a former director of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), business leaders and former chief justice of the Supreme Court Beverley McLachlin.
Pointless considering no one will volunteer to serve in Trudeau’s Tranny Brigade.
After years of Canada’s allies politely suggesting that the Canadian Armed Forces should try being less of an underfunded disaster, there are signs that they’re getting increasingly impatient with the request.
At a meeting last week of NATO foreign ministers, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg threw out a thinly veiled slam at Canada, saying they will be looking to “ensure that allies are investing enough in defence.”
During the Cold War, the term “Finlandization” was derogatory.
Sharing a 1,300-kilometre border with what was then the Soviet Union, Finland had to endorse (or at least not oppose) the U.S.S.R.’s foreign and military policy in order to retain some semblance of independence.
Finland wasn’t exactly a puppet state, but it wasn’t entirely free, either.
The term became a symbol of capitulation in the face of a powerful nation.
As the old saying goes, there are some things one must never discuss in polite company. Politics and money usually top the list.
If you’ve ever been to a NATO leaders’ summit, you know these gatherings are the epitome of polite company (with the exception of Donald Trump).
NATO leaders — at least in public — sometimes go far, far out of their way to avoid criticizing other leaders and nations, especially those who are perceived as not pulling their weight.
Got a sense of adventure?
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— Canadian Army (@CanadianArmy) April 6, 2023
I’m not sure there is a single positive comment.
Canadian soldiers were sent to Poland last October, with more sent in February and March. In all, there are about 100 Canadian soldiers in Poland. They are there as part of Operation Unifier to train Ukrainian forces in “battlefield tactics and advanced military skills.”
But the Canadian Armed Forces didn’t send a cook with them. Our soldiers were told to eat out at local restaurants and turn in their receipts to be paid back.
Except they aren’t being reimbursed. Like seemingly everything else in the federal government, there is a months-long backlog in processing their expense claims.
OTTAWA – A battle is brewing between Canadian defence officials and federal decision-makers as the Trudeau government looks for ways to save billions of dollars over the next few years.
Experts say last week’s budget and the delays in a planned update to the defence policy are signs of this pending conflict, with ramifications for Canada’s military and its international reputation.
Oh well so long as they have budget to promote sexual mutilation fetishists they’ll do just fine.
Canadian troops in Poland are having to buy their own food but aren’t being reimbursed, causing hardships for their families back home.
The Canadian soldiers are in Poland to train Ukrainian military personnel but since Canada did not send military cooks on the mission, the troops were told to eat at local restaurants.
But there is a massive backlog with the Canadian Forces reimbursing the soldiers for those costs, sending some of them thousands of dollars into debt. Their families contacted this newspaper to complain about the situation they say is causing financial stress at home.
So what’s the issue? Did they have a make-up supply emergency for the tranny Brigade and needed bucks in a hurry? Or did they go native and start embezzling funds from the military? Or did Justin need the money for his 6K a night hotel?
And the CAF wonders at their recruiting shortfalls.
h/t WK
