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Sounds kind of grim....

Fuggin Canadian military is a bunch of puzzies. 3/4 of the NATO member nations are puzzies. Why, because we foot the fuggin bill whilst they spend their money on other chit.

I’m a nationalist like Trump and Putin !

My body is riddled with scars and missing parts, many have died for these fuggin panty waste !

Tired of shedding blood for fucgks !

Fugg every one of them !

Pretty dead on.

What does Steve Redgwell the noted Canadian military, public health, and political expert have to say?

Did Canada ever have a draft board system?

2ndwind;
Good evening to you sir, I hope your part of the world had a decent day and you're well.

There was conscription during WWII, which began in 1942 but was a political football in that 80% of Canada outside Quebec was in favor of it, but 72% of Quebec was against it. In the end there were something like 12,000 men conscripted and about 2,400 of those saw overseas service. There were 1.1 million Canadians who served directly in that conflict, out of a total population of 12 million so a reasonably high per capita participation.

As for the video and of course this is only one Canuck's opinion, but I believe they understated some of the topics covered, missed some and some I'm not sure I can agree with their conclusions.

At the end of WWII we had either the 3rd or 4th largest navy - depending upon whose numbers one wants to take. The RCAF was smaller, but still was equipped with up to date planes, etc.

Why did it shrink to where it's at today?

There are lots of reasons - again in my view - some of which were budgetary for sure and some were pressure from the US and Britain to take certain courses of action like NATO, NORAD instead of the Avro Arrow jets among others.

It's a huge topic and there's no simple answer to undoing what's been happening for a long time but our involvement in Afghanistan did change public perception of the military to a positive one. That said, the bought and paid for Canadian legacy media were on board with that and that's a not insignificant part of the issue here.

Anyways, there's a couple thoughts from a semi-old guy who tries to pay attention to such details.

All the best.

Dwayne

So Canada had 12,000 men conscripted for WW11 and we lost 416,000+? That's wrong.

teamprairiedog;
Good evening sir, I hope all is well in flyover country.

Indeed I screwed up at least one thing in my reply which read 1.1 Canadians and should have read 1.1 million Canadians were in some branch of the service.

The US had 16 million in various branches of the service.

I'm not clear if either list includes Merchant Marine for instance, so there is that.

Sorry about that.

Dwayne

Edit to add.

It looks like 45,000 Canadians were killed in action out of those 1.1 million

As I understand it, originally conscripted troops were for home defense only and were not going to be sent overseas, but they did send 2,400 in the end. Not sure how many casualties of those there were.

The clisest country with respectable military is Turkey. Send more military stuff to 🇺🇦.

620,000 Americans were killed during the Civil War .That`s really wrong . Start of The Military ,Industrial Complex. Anything for money.

Maybe as far as you’re concerned but I’ll take Canada on their worst day than Turkey on their best!

Have you ever been correct Slave?…I certainly have yet to see it. 😂

Turks SUCK !

They are only good at bullying their own people or squeezing DOD for chit !

And I’ll say it again, Canadian military is a bunch of puzzies

Thanks again for your perspective Dwayne. IIRC a Canadian sniper currently holds the World record for the longest confirmed kill?

If Russia invaded Turkey from the rear, do you think Greece would help?

😂

I was in Aviano Italy for the Kosovo bombing. Canada sent several F-18's with the pretty Maple leaf on the tail. CNN had pictures of them taking off. What didn't Canada send? Bombs, fuel, ground support personnel. I had to give the Intel pre-mission brief to them. They ate in US chow halls. Sure where a pretty plane though. Same thing in Kuwait. Pretty C-17 with a huge maple leaf on the tail. Everything else supplied by the US.

What could possibly justify a military for Canada?