They fought for our freedom

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That article shows a long-term problem the feds have with certain agencies. But if you look at what happened in the UK when they privatized (not veteran affairs per se) things became worse. Malignant and nefarious in the efforts to be passive-aggressive in regards to clients. So I wonder what the solution is. Gone are the days when veterans needed service from a war 50 plus years ago. Instead, we have veterans that were in a 20 year protracted war with maimed and killed servicemen coming home and dealing with the VA on a consistent basis.
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just popping in wrote: Nov 5th, 2021, 3:55 pm And then I read articles such as this and makes me ashamed/angry by the way our Veterans are mistreated.

https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-s ... htm#350827
Disgusting treatment towards our veterans. Abhorrent.

Meanwhile, JT and minions jet their arses around the globe dispensing our money with abandon to those who have never lived here nor paid a dime in taxes…. but not a thought or a nickel for those who actually served bodily and came home wounded, only to be chopped up once again by politicians.

For shame.
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2021 poppies “extra stabby” to help Canadians appreciate soldiers’ sacrifice

OTTAWA – Representatives from the Royal Canadian Legion have confirmed that their 2021 poppies were designed for optimal pointiness, size, and “gouge-ability”, to help Canadians better remember their soldiers’ sacrifices.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2016/11/20 ... bdNI6lz06E
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just popping in wrote: Nov 5th, 2021, 3:55 pm And then I read articles such as this and makes me ashamed/angry by the way our Veterans are mistreated.
When stories like this make it into the media across this country, I wonder how many that might be considering enlisting now won't. Who wants to work for an outfit where you are injured on the job and to try and get help is a never ending bureaucratic nightmare.

With this in mind, Canada's military numbers are down. https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/32 ... e-soldiers
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This shouldn’t be a thing needed in Canada period, our politicians apparently don’t give a damn about our Veterans. Federal government get off your :swear: and fix the decades of BS.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/35 ... melessness
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Remember this.....

"Freedom is NOT an eternal right paid for by the blood of others, but an HONOUR, bestowed upon those who defend it!"

Please, Honour those who gave you freedom, and vilify those who dare attempt to take it away.

It is easy to vote your way into the enslavement of socialism or communism, but you will most certainly have to shoot your way out of it.

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Now there are Truckers for Freedom literally *bleep* on the national war memorial and dancing on the grave of the unkown soldier, such great representation of Canadians, NOT.

* https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/35 ... -s-protest

* https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/second- ... -1.5760424
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First Terry Fox and now this Memorial, some of these protesters are making it look very bad for the ones who are legit.
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Bsuds wrote: Jan 30th, 2022, 12:01 pm First Terry Fox and now this Memorial, some of these protesters are making it look very bad for the ones who are legit.
The truckers should get out and police those that don't have a "class 1 with air ticket" DL.

These others are just sucking off the trucker's protest.
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2.50 mark. "If you're in a fight, you want the Canadians on your side." Truer words were never spoken.
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Fight with what? You don't even realize how poorly equipped the CF is.

(CAN DefMin) Anand, who was in Kyiv on a two-day visit to show Canada’s solidarity with Ukraine, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail that she had discussed “aid, writ large” in her meeting with Mr. Reznikov. While the Liberal government has thus far resisted sending lethal armaments to Kyiv, Ms. Anand said the issue was still under discussion.

She said she wouldn’t publicly discuss what type of weapons Ukraine had asked for, but Mr. Reznikov told The Globe in a recent interview that his country – which has a large and battle-hardened land army after eight years of fighting against Russian-backed forces in the Donbas region – was in dire need of anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, as well as naval defences and electronic jamming equipment.

We don't have that equipment for our own military, and that's just the start.
Canada would take massive casualties in a war because of this.
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Blast wrote: Feb 1st, 2022, 8:33 am Fight with what? You don't even realize how poorly equipped the CF is.

(CAN DefMin) Anand, who was in Kyiv on a two-day visit to show Canada’s solidarity with Ukraine, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail that she had discussed “aid, writ large” in her meeting with Mr. Reznikov. While the Liberal government has thus far resisted sending lethal armaments to Kyiv, Ms. Anand said the issue was still under discussion.

She said she wouldn’t publicly discuss what type of weapons Ukraine had asked for, but Mr. Reznikov told The Globe in a recent interview that his country – which has a large and battle-hardened land army after eight years of fighting against Russian-backed forces in the Donbas region – was in dire need of anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, as well as naval defences and electronic jamming equipment.

We don't have that equipment for our own military, and that's just the start.
Canada would take massive casualties in a war because of this.
the problem for canada is our commitments, but i fully agree canada can not wage war unless americans are our bodyguards, which is fine for me. big military costs big money.
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To indict how poorly equipped the Cdn Army is:

https://theline.substack.com/p/tommy-co ... ers-show-a

EXTRACT: Canada has not done these thing (send military equipment). We say we’re not sending weapons because “diplomacy is the solution,” but the reality is we can’t send anything meaningful. Any small arms we send would likely be on a NATO standard, and thus not very useful for Ukrainian forces who use Soviet calibers. As for the stuff the Kyiv really needs — the anti-tank and anti-air systems that the Americans, British, and Balts are sending — we are not sending them because we barely have any. Our anti-tank capability is mostly theoretical. Because we have not replaced older, worn-out systems, we have less anti-tank capability now than we did during the “decade of darkness” in the 1990s. We’ve known for decades that we need to equip the infantry with highly-portable, effective guided missiles like the U.S. Javelin, but we haven’t bothered, save fora few Spike missile systems for our special forces. Maybe our regular ground forces will get something similar by 2033. We have literally no air defence capability besides shooting machine guns in the air and hoping for the best, so we have no air defence missiles to send. Besides the fact that we can’t support Ukraine with weapons, we can’t really support NATO allies with reinforcements either because our units, on a modern battlefield, would lack the ability to defend themselves. We might be welcome as a political gesture, but we might also just be in the way.

Our deficiencies go deeper than weapons. CAF is well below strength. But instead of doubling down on core capabilities, CAF leadership insists on putting more people and resources into newer, faddish capabilities like cyber and information warfare, when we already have an entire government agency that does cyber. Our brigades — the core of the Canadian Army’s fighting power, are under-strength, and the army’s recent “Force 2025” concept concedes that the army should hope to field small, combat team elements as the core of any near-future operational deployment. To put this in perspective, a combat team makes up part of a battlegroup, which makes up part of a brigade. The Russians have 50 battlegroup equivalents on the Ukrainian border, and roughly 16 in the Kaliningrad exclave bordering Poland and Lithuania.

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