Every little bit helps when it comes to sending aid to Ukraine. Canada took that motto to heart when Defence Minister Anita Anand announced with great fanfare that Canada would be sending a grand total of four Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine. A little bit indeed. A veritable drop in the bucket for a nation facing an enemy in possession of thousands of battle-ready tanks.
Is Canada’s military facing a new decade of darkness amid persistent personnel challenges and growing demands on the force from around the world?
“History will tell,” said Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, airing in full on Sunday.
Crappy and or broken equipment with faint prospects of replacement because it’s all gone to Ukraine.
The woke alienation of their traditional recruitment base, white males, has nothing to do with personnel problems, because white males are racists and were driving away transgender recruits.
Canada’s military is not ready for the challenges the future holds as the global security situation continues “deteriorating,” warned Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre.
In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson airing Sunday, Eyre spoke about the efforts the military is making to support Ukraine in its defence against the Russian invasion, but also about the difficulties the Canadian Forces are facing in preparing for the demands of a more unstable world.
And it’s all because of you right wing racists.
Canada is considering contributing four Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, senior sources told CBC News — but no decision has been made.
The government could announce the donation of tanks as early as Thursday, the sources said.
CBC News is not identifying the confidential sources because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Do we even have 4 working tanks?
Adam Zivo: How Canada sabotaged its own fleet of tanks
When asked last week about whether Canada will send tanks to Ukraine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “We’re not there yet.” As it turns out, maybe the reason we aren’t “there” is because a decade of neglect has rendered a significant portion of our tanks inoperable.
Defence Minister Anita Anand says she has “no news to share” on whether Canada is willing to send some of its battle tanks to Ukraine — should Germany greenlight the export — following a meeting of 50 allied defence leaders this week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly issued pleas for tanks, although members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group failed to come to an agreement on what to send after meetings at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany this week.
Canada has 82 German-made Leopard 2 tanks, in various states of serviceability, but it needs permission from Germany to send them to Ukraine, consent it has yet to receive.
ODESA, Ukraine — A growing coalition of western states is poised to send tanks to Ukraine. Canada should join them; it would cost peanuts, support Canadian interests and be the moral thing to do.
However, there’s a problem: a significant portion of Canada’s tanks may have been neglected to the point of becoming inoperable — a revelation that until now has escaped much scrutiny from the press, apart from the Post’s John Ivison .
Western allies have been expanding their military aid to Ukraine since December in anticipation of a Russian springtime offensive .
Yea but our army knows proper pronoun deployment in battlefield conditions.
Six months after National Defence claimed it was shutting down efforts to collect social media data of Canadians, the military was back again developing new technology to accomplish such tasks.
Defence firms and other companies were given almost $10 million to develop new ways to analyze social media and sift through accounts.
Is it me or is there just a lot more crap than ususal going on in Canada this week?
The Canadian military has appointed LGBTQ advisors to serve in its chaplain service to promote “diversity and inclusion” within the armed forces, says a federal briefing note on Dec. 6.
“We have established senior advisor positions including an indigenous and LGBTQ advisor to Chaplain General to raise awareness, education and innovate,” said the note “Military Chaplains,” obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The advisors were to “further provide diversity and inclusion within the Chaplain Service,” said the note, according to the media outlet.
The CAF’s desire to become hyper-woke puts them at cross-purposes. Won’t the transgender chaplains meet with resistance from the ISIS recruits?
OTTAWA – There are concerns at the highest levels of the Canadian Armed Forces that this country won’t have access to the same cutting-edge military technology as its closest allies because it is not part of a security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The trilateral treaty, nicknamed “AUKUS” after the three countries involved, was announced in September 2021 in what many have seen as a bid to counter China’s growing military presence in the Indo-Pacific region, where Canada has growing economic and security interests.
I wonder if Canada’s absence was a deliberate move by Trudeau so he could waste the money on pet projects like transgender recycling bins?
Just as realistically it may simply be that Trudeau’s Canada is no longer considered a serious and reliable ally.
It’s difficult to visualize Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaping from his bed in an epiphany about spending on Canada’s military, shouting: “Lord God Almighty, I’ve seen the light!”
Given that, there is something strange going on with military procurement in our country.
To further its cultural transformation, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) seeks to screen individuals before or after recruitment for “problematic attitudes” by using new tools, including a database of symbols built with outside expertise.
“A symbology dataset was created and will be continually updated, in consultation with, or outsourced to, external experts, to increase CAF recruiters’ awareness of extremist, racist, discriminatory, or hateful conduct, or other unacceptable attitudes that are displayed through applicant tattoos and body adornments,” the organization wrote in its December response to Louise Arbour’s report.
OTTAWA – The federal Liberal government’s plan to buy anti-aircraft missiles for Ukraine is prompting questions about why such equipment isn’t being bought for the Canadian Army.
The Army has been without weapons to defend Canadian troops from enemy aircraft, rockets and drones since the last of its anti-air weapons were retired in 2012, and efforts to acquire new ones have remained stuck in neutral for years.
Multiple Army commanders have described the lack of such weapons as a key deficiency for the Canadian military, including defence chief Gen. Wayne Eyre, when he was the head of the Army in 2019.
Ottawa is a city of plans. Many plans. Sometimes you find there are plans to have a plan. But as the old Scottish poem says, “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men often go awry.”
More than a decade ago, as Canada’s war in Afghanistan was grinding to its conclusion, a plan was drawn up to rebuild, refresh and re-equip the army for the future.
It withered and died over several years — a victim of changing defence fashions, budgets, inter-service and inter-departmental bureaucratic warfare and political indifference.
It might be a stretch to describe Gen. Wayne Eyre as a modern Cassandra.
Still, over the latter half of 2022, Canada’s top military commander delivered — in public and before House of Commons committees — increasingly stark warnings about the future geopolitical landscape, where the war between Russia and Ukraine could go and the intentions of other disruptive international actors, such as China.
Whether he’s been disbelieved or dismissed — like the Trojan priestess of Greek mythology — has depended largely on his audience.
OTTAWA – The war in Ukraine has identified critical gaps in the Canadian Army’s ability to fight and survive on the battlefield, leading to an unanticipated rush to buy new military equipment.
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Canadian Army commander Lt.-Gen. Joe Paul said that includes anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles as well as systems to protect against drones.
The Army is also hoping to purchase the types of long-range, precision missile systems that have given Ukrainian forces a distinct advantage over their Russian foes, and state-of-the-art command-and-control technology.
