What makes the Canadian Army so special?
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Good Maple Syrup
Nice Starship Troopers references
Thank you for this. As Winnipeger with a partner in the CIC, I'd love to hear your outside opinions on this. Thank you deeply for your service and continued coverage of the Ukrainian and Sudanese conflicts.
LOL good jab at the socialist society by including the starship troopers line.
Great! You shoild do an assessment of other countries as well....
I thought the Canadian army was special because no matter what the task, they always bring their "eh" game.
Beauty!
Nice one, buddy!
Good one, friend!
Didn't get it
@@Keyboard_Thoughts it’s a Canadian language reference, like when they say aye, or aboot.
I trained with them.
1. Excellent fieldcraft and tactics
2. Super resourceful. Was in a range with one of their sniper teams (preGWOT). Solid, despite their Remington M700 with a homemade check rest made out of foam and 100 MPH tape.
3. Fun, competent guys. Well adjusted, good humored, tough, and resourceful.
Our vehicles can resist bullets, until it gets shot
That's concerning since my country's defence force uses Canadian made lavs as our main infantry fighting vehicles
@@bluewardog yall should be good i think thhe issue for canada is tthe maintenc of their arsenal
@@bluewardog My country's Gurkha law enforcement units have also been replacing their Land Rover Defenders with APCs from Canadian company Teradyne
@@bluewardog Well no, the LAV has a good armor, it can take 30mm armor piercing round. make it strong against all non anti tank weapon. And yes nothing resist Anti Tank weapon... It's the purpose of it.
@@TheKiessu I know a anti tank wepon will fuck up a lav, I was more concerned if they had some issue in manufacturing or somthing on in the design itself.
Panning over to Trudeau while stating that "the Canadian Army has some problems." **chef's kiss** Spot on sir.
Except Trudeau reversed the cut Harper made and is spending 50% more than Harper did..
As a Canadian veteran, I thank you for the acknowledgement and kind words. I'm sure that working with you gave us as good an impression as we've made on you.
Thank you sir. 🧐
This is the most Canadian comment and comment reply I’ve ever seen. Thank you both
Well, we only invaded Canada twice. Both times, being politely shown which side of the border was ours.
Can’t say the same about Mexico…
@@spvillano who invaded Canada twice ? America?that's false ,if you're talking about the war if 1812 the Americans had an army in Canada the entire war ,we had an army in upper Canada until the end of the war before the british succumb to the war under status quo at the ghent peace treaty ...they never beat the American out
@@westpointsnell4167 I remember a white house burning - BAHAHAHHA
What makes em so special to me is that Canada is our good friends! 🙂
Brothers and sisters in arms
A friendship worth celebrating and building on! 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Being a armored soldier in the CAF I can say vehicles constantly breaking isn't our only problem 😭
I've heard a few stories from my ex's dad.
You guys are a weakling army that a couple of household Le of jihadist could overthrow if they put their minds to it. Lucky the USA protects you!
Its no better in the navy
Same in the U.S Army lol. I swear sometimes they just break sitting in the Motorpool..
So you are saying that an old canoe and a rusty 22 rifle isn’t enough?
Im telling you right now my father served in the United states Army from 74' to 2008. He said he could always trust the Canadians to have his back. Mad respect to you guys.
Now if only Canada would treat its veterans better
Amen
America too
also get rid of Trudeau and vote the Conservatives in.
Blame our former PM Harper and his cronies. He permanently diverted away $1Billion/yr away from Veterans Affairs *and immediately sold half of their assets & buildings, before they were empty, so they couldn’t be re-opened after the next election* Then shifted that money into the active forces, so he didn’t have to stop his tax cuts for Billionaires like himself, and so we could spend $16mil/day flying over E.Syria.
@@AnitaHiscock how would that help on that
The Harper era goverbkent started the legal challenge from the government of canada to the crown; arguing it doesn’t have a special obligation to provide care or treatment to veterans beyond that of any other Canadian or what they’re contractually obligated to provide
Voting thr conservatives back in isn’t going to end the court case
It’s going to end eventually
Or the NDP people will get elected and drop it
Or the liberals will fingers crossed replace truduea
Much respect to our friends up north. Canada has some of the best snipers in the world.
It was a Canadian, Lester Pearson, who proposed a UN peacekeeping force to quell the Suez crisis in the 50s, and he won the Nobel Prize for it. So we feel a certain commitment to blue-hat missions.
And yet given the disgustingly low state of readiness, we can't muster ever a few hundred troops for peacekeeping missions.
Canada currently has 58 peacekeepers, for the record Zimbabwe has 63.
Fiji has 326, Ireland has 500, Tunisia has 1000, Morocco has 1700 ect.
Real big "commitment" with 58 troops.
There was a theory that Pearson was an American spy. I also heard there are those who think Ken Taylor was an American spy. Never cared for Taylor. He reminded me of an arrogant pimp. Hard core DFAIT lol.
@@TheOwenMajor WTF you talkin about?
@@mcloutier5 I'm talking about the myth that Canada contributes to peacekeeping, we don't. It's a myth designed to hide our military neglect.
@@mcloutier5 The way in which Canada and America handled the Suez crisis was huge foreign policy failure for the Western world. We should have supported Britain and France. They paid for the Canal, it should have at least been permanently co-owned by all 3 countries.
President Eisenhower said supporting Egypt during the Suez crisis was one of his biggest regrets. It didn’t win over Egypt to the side of the West anyways, their dictator Abdel Nasser still chose to side with a fellow autocracy, the Soviet Union.
Thank you for this, Love this video
"Want to know more?" with a Starship Troopers photo is *chef's kiss*
I loved that movie when it came out, Thanks to Knowing Better I have a different perspective of it in todays world.
[DESIRE TO KNOW MORE INTENSIFIES]
@@KoRntech I haven't watched it in a long time... but I know that watching something from my youth with an adult and modern eye can certainly surprise me as to how cringe or opposing to my values they are. Curious to hear what it was about ST that you picked up on?
The movie Starship Troopers sucked big time. What an insult to Heinlein’s novel!
@@slaughterhouse5585the movie makes fun of the novel because the novel has bad ideas. The purpose of the movie is to show how stupid the society that Heinlein envisions is.
The 'If you would like to know more!' image was perfectly placed! Starship Troopers is hilarious.
I'M DOING MY PART!
"The canadian army has some problems.." *shows picture of Trudeau*
You're absolutely correct 😂
Ehh, the issues with the Canadian military are decades old. We just have a lot of bad policies and struggle with recruiting. The military also isn’t very important to Canadians so unfortunately a lot of these issues go unaddressed politically
You’re not wrong!
The issues with the Canadian military pre date Junior, he hasn't done anything to fix these issues, but neither did any of the 5 or 6 PM's before him.
He’s just the latest in a long line of PMs, Cons say the right things but do the same. The work the government has been doing to make the military a safer place to work in for women, has been good at least.
30 + years to get new fighter jets. Same with helicopters.
A couple years ago they replaced the WW2 Browning High Power pistols. Unreliable in combat. Guys would borrow pistols to compete in shooting competitions.
I'm American. I like our Canadian cousins. Just wanted to put that out there.
Our military has been neglected by the federal government for several decades, going back as far as the 70s. Every time we are supposed to replace old equipment the government in power at the time doesn't want to be the ones to spend the money, so it just never gets done. We were supposed to replace our 50s era Sikorsky Sea King helicopters in the 80s, but some served into the 2000s because of this exact issue
That’s because they’re in NATO why spend when you have the whole of NATO and the US as your next door neighbor.
@Robert Martin That's precisely the problem. We have relied on our allies for too long and neglected to maintain our military. Our military is still well trained and experienced, but our equipment is often outdated and poorly maintained since we have leaned on the US too much.
Your F/A-18A models too, Trudeau cancelled the F-35 as their replacement only for the F-35 to be selected again just last year.
We are protected by an Article 5 guarantee aka 5,000 tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. We are flanked by three Oceans and the World's Greatest Military machine of all human history.
What purpose do we have for military spending?
Well thats what the people voted for
Fund these people and they wont let you down.
I used to be in the CDN Infantry, and I can say another part of the reason we're so effective is BECAUSE our kit is crap. We've trained to use literally the worse, and oldest kit, so the fundamentals of soldiering is hugely emphasized to make up for the crap kit we're issued. This means that when we deploy, and are given moderately good gear, (because we only issue the good stuff for deployments) we're that much more effective.
Not to mention, Canada is still very rural. Unlike what Trudeau tries to tell everyone, shooting sports and being outside is still VERY engrained in our identity. We love being outside, we're used to hardship (shit weather, and varied terrain for example), and we're practiced with firearms even before we enlist. Hand a hardworking farmer, logger, oil worker, outdoorsman, etc a rifle, good pay, 3 hots and a cot... you've just created a hell of a soldier.
i saw a current CF member and former British Army guy talk about how wasteful the British Army is, whereas the Canadian Army was incredibly efficient with its use of kit, being incentivized to do more with less
Ugh this was good until you ruined it with your political slag.
Nice summary of why we are what we are... Most Canadians generally think if you work for the government you've got it made!
As a 24+ year Armoured veteran , you sum it up perfectly.
Still worth it to enlist?
Thanks Ryan. Was in the militia here for years. Really appreciated the experience.
Go Canada. !!!
Im glad that someone sees the good side of our armed forces. Thank you
I know, right? It feels like it's always negative but we do good work with the funding we get
Theres a downside?
@@Seawiiplay start scrolling through the comments and you'll see what people are saying ; unless you're just being facetious
You work for the canandian government, you arent good guys
@@gardensofthegods well, let’s review a couple.
Canada is using Sea King helicopters, impressively introduced in the 1950’s. I’m impressed, as the helicopter was introduced the year that I was born - 1961. Canadian helicopters have time travel!
Why couldn’t we get those too?
Canadian armored vehicles break down.
Armed vehicles break down, babies wet, not a news flash there. Armor is infernally heavy, so wear is greater and maintenance is intensive and expensive - even if the things are just left parked.
I know that all too well, being licensed in M113’s, M577’s and Strykers (the last being still under warranty with GD - a Canadian company).
The US also still flies B-52’s, which were introduced in the 1950’s. Tough old birds too, I know of one that had severe weather shear its entire tail off and it managed to complete its flight and safely land.
Theres a massive misconception in America that Canadian troops aren't given plate carriers; and for the most part that's correct because most Canadian military personnel aren't in combat. Canadian troops DO get SBAS (Sniper body armour system) plate carriers when the task calls for it, but until then its just standard fragmentation protection vests as it's cheaper that way.
They bring Beer and are allowed to. Hell I’ve had them fly from IRAQ to Canada and back and they smuggled a Pallet of beer. Always be nice to the Canadians
Plus. Regulation beards. Heck yeah buddy!
Beer sucks.
As a Canadian who’s in the army when he said “mainly lack of funding and broken vehicles” I felt that.
Thank you Ryan for shedding some light on us! Love the highlighted "Problems" 😅
Our unit served alongside Canadians in Afghanistan. I don’t care how small their Army is number- wise. Ive never felt more secure knowing we had Canadians guarding our flank. As nice as they were away from battle - they were well trained professional killers when the bell rang!
Yawn...most soldiers in an active warzone are killers too...good gracious.🥱🙄🤷
Thank you for a video on us 😄
Sincerely a Canadian
Glad you made a video on this. I googled this weapon and read some sesources I could find, but you presented it in a nice way and showed it close-up in detail, so thanks for that.
Our most elite units are newfies that drop in at night with pallates of beer. Befoore you know it everyone is partying and no one wants to fight
Jesus my son...that was top secret...
With the Newfies I'm sure there will be a bar brawl or two but that's about it
I wouldn't want to fight for this country either lmao
Yeah, but hung over or not, they did show up and fight.
Although, when we did combined operations, they did always duck when we fired for some reason…. ;)
They also bring cucumbers to the fight
I’ve been following you for a while and I was waiting for this one. As a proud member of the CAF, I’m ready for that discussion. Bring it on Ryan!
Much love
Canadian Vet here!
Proud to have served!
RCEME/GEMRC
In the CAF we say "do more, with less"
"adapt and overcome" heard more times then I can count
Facta Non Verba 🇨🇦
True shit considering how funding is being slashed and a lot of units are using old gear and aging apparatus. Even so, reg force and reservists seem to dish out way above what you’d expect but they’d do so much better with more funding (ahem ahem, half the vehicles in armoured breaking down)
Is the toilet paper bear your mascot?
I gotta think that that's largely a consequence of the natural environment our people have had to not only survive but thrive in for generations lol
An excellent summation, as always.
A Canadian sniper holds the world record for longest shot at 3,500m - 3800yards
There has been a sort of "competition" between Canadian and British snipers for the longest shot for at least 2 or 3 decades.
And if I'm not mistaken even the Navy seals were taking Canadian snipers as support in Afganistan and Irak since they among the best.
Amusingly, the Canadian record shots were performed using the hotter loaded US issue ammunition.
Figures. We make it, they master it.
Good for them, that rifle was insanely heavy!
@@omargj1 I remember it was 2 Canadians in the same unit, one guy got the record and days later his comrade broke it. Then a British sniper broke the record and the current record holder broke that. I believe they were all in Afghanistan..
My best friend is a sniper in the Canadian military he served in Afghanistan. I know my friend is an elite sniper he's told me some stories!! since we were kids he always wanted to be in the military. The day he was of age he enrolled
A very honorable record
@omargj, I've not once heard of Canadian snipers being tacked on to SEAL Teams because they're good. As good as CAF Snipers are, I'm sure someone was probably pulling your leg when they told you that. I could be wrong, but I've seen a lot of these sort of claims that don't normally hold up.
It's maple syrup, the secret is maple syrup.
Thanks for the shout out to the Mounties! I retired from that disfunctional "family" 4 years ago, never thought I'd miss it but against all odds I really do. Cheers
From hungry war hunters to peace keepers honestly impressive... And terrifying
In both WWI and WWII the Canadians were in Liverpool to all intents and purposes the very next day. Along with the sacred Polish they fought cheek and jowel with us from Normandy to Wismar.
This Brit loves Canada.
Americas gurkhas
Thanks for the review Mr McBeth!
A polite Canadian soldier tucking someone to bed is just as reassuring as owning an auto.
Honestly, it really is
conventional warfare is just way so much more than shooting a rifle
Fun fact: the Canadian army's role in peacekeeping is why Canada's flag looks like it does today. They were supposed to help enforce the Egypt-Israel(+Britain+France) ceasefire in the 1950s, but Egypt didn't want the Canadians in their territory because the previous flag had the Union Jack in it.
It is sad to me as a Canadian that our government sucks at making sure our military has what it needs to protect our country and support our allies. I also have issues with support to our Vets. These vets should never have to worry about support back home when they risk life to project Canadian support.
So, you’ll happily pay higher taxes to do just that?
@@spvillano yes, but I'd prefer to cut taxes on stupid stuff we don't need.
@@brendanwakeley9103 such as?
@@spvillano Politicians' salaries.
@@killman369547 ah, so leave them susceptible to bribery. Grand idea out of history, any other historic failures that you'd like to repeat?
Canadian army is special indeed. I mean who else would enlist to defend a country that keeps electing Justinder?
I know they have some of the finest looooong distance precision marksman on the planet.
I am so ashamed of what our government has done to our armed forces.
I’m ashamed at what our government has done to lawful firearms owners!!! But I guess that will teach the criminals…. 🤷♂️
As a former CDN platoon commander I thank you for making this and your former video on the topic. We might have older kit, but gun tape, wire and a trip to the local outdoors store fixes a lot of those problems. Now if we could just work on the caloric value of the IMPs (MRE). I always carried extra high calorie rats and seasonings with me on deployment.
That's not a good excuse for failing your troops and equipment....
There is a large amount of denial floating around esp. among those who claim to be Canadian patriots. I heard currently in the CF unit commanders hold town hall meetings with the troops where the CO flaps gums about Mr. Anand's new role for the CF. After the CO speaks, there is not much but dead silence. The town hall ends with the CO's CWO giving a speech that goes:'we are a family' after reiterating all non commissioned members must eagerly embrace Mr. Anand's new role for the CF - again to dead silence.
@@martkbanjoboy8853 Well clearly you mis-heard or just plain made that up disgruntled lad. By the way, Anita Anand is a woman. Stick to playing your banjo.
How much more caloric value do you need on top of the MRE’s? I mean really, with all of the bullshit we both get from command, it’s a miracle we don’t weight as much as an ox!
@@doozledorf7036you underestimate heavily, just because you have good equipment doesn't mean anything, it'll still break down and have flaws no different from the last set of equipment, and bringing up troops makes no sense, given how well trained they are.
Deployed with a Canadian dude. First time I’ve ever heard someone say “doobie” and “aboot” completely seriously. The Canadian speech stereotype is real
"but the Canadian Military has some problems..." Shows picture of Justin Trudeau. Hit the nail on the head, Ryan.
...although the problem with "conservative" governments is that they love to spend up big on big-ticket military items, but scrimp on pay and conditions, then "Pikachu face" when the forces shrink due to people leaving for civilian jobs.
@@dj1NM3 the conservatives and liberals are equally incompetent, I don’t see the difference between differentiating between them anymore. Just rich, corrupt schemers
Yep, congratulations, your commander in chief is the son of Fidel Castro, and that is the truth. A true bastard!
@@bluecheesehasmoldinitI vote, at all levels. I write letters to my MP.
I'm not charismatic enough to become PM or defense minister. So I comment on TH-cam.
I'll complain about my leadership, and you can keep complaining about me.
@@bluecheesehasmoldinitComplaining is everyone's right and freedom and I think its always step one to change but you do have a point. Here in Ontario, everyone complains and gripes about Doug Ford but the 2022 election had a depressing 43% turnout. Every time our province is getting fucked over I can't help but blame the people who didn't care enough to vote rather than the corrupt conservatives running it into the ground.
Main advantage that Canada has is that nobody expects them to do the shit they do.
Just ask the Kaiser!
Saying sorry before you kill an adversary counts.
We say that after we make their children orphans
When you have the Canadian Army coming after you, you gotta ask yourself, "Am I being an asshole?"
When canada says they aren't sorry: 😰😨😱
When my father shipped to Korea in about 1952, there was a Canadian unit on the same transport.
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
He said they were a tough bunch.
That’s a unit with a long and distinguished history right there.
My son is 2 PPCLI.
@@gregpaterson2675 Cool.
As a former member of the CF...here's some positives...
1. 2 alcoholic beverages allowed per day on deployment
2. HTLA on deployment (was that what we called it? Is that still a thing?)
3. Personal kit was always outstanding. When we deployed (2006 & 2010) everybody in our platoon had C7A2 or C8A2 + Pac 4 + red dot sight, and our NVG at the time was Gen 4
Negatives...
- We don't get as much bang for our buck as we should. (6th largest spender in NATO)
- Without any real direction/white paper, money ends up being spent on every capability we 'might' require instead of focusing on what we 'will' require
We also complicate the hell out of acquisitions of capital kit
- Too much unwanted culture change coming from the outside. (We sometimes forget one of the roles we have is to fight in wars & win the tactical fight...instead we have these sensitivity courses that take over actual training)
"It has some problems." Pans to the problem....
I was about to say.
Happened years before our PM. Harper and the cons are the clowns you can blame for starting that disaster.
The Con PM who led for 10 years before him did nothing as well. Try a little balance.
Crap take. The last 4 or 5 PMs have had the same problems. Plenty of blame to go around.
Skippy won't be any better either.
@@twinlamp I think the point is the ball is currently in his court to do something about the issue and he is not. Thus, he is the “current” issue
Another reason that nobody I saw mention was we have half the Geneva code against what we did in WW1 and WW2
More Canadian content!! ❤🙌❤
"Has some problems" *pans to Prime Minister*
OMG as a Canadian thank you for the subtle not so subtle jab "But the Canadian army has some problems" I would say ONE problem shown very distinctly in that picture. Thank you to all Canadian Veterans!
Very informative video, also very well done too. Thank you
Let me tell you, there’s some incredible characters in that military. Having gone on exercise with Canadian loggies, they work hard and drink hard. God help you when they set the moose loose. That is stealthy stuff. You have two, think to yourself “a third can’t hurt” but little do you know, the damage is already done. The third just reveals the extent of your misjudgement.
Thank you for the shout out 😎🤘😎 and yes you’re right, no funding whatsoever 😑
Aside from the fact theyre total badasses in every war they fought in ? Mmmm
From Vimy Ridge, to the first use of a double Bailey Bridge in combat, and the achievement list goes on, and on, say no more.
Everybody has badasses in combat...🙄
I am in the Canadian Army and have been for 16 years now. I would like to thank you for highlighting that despite our relatively small size we are deployed all over the world doing all kinds of soldiering/sailing/flying. I was deployed 4 times in ten years. I have another 10ish years left in my career and wonder how many more times I shall be deployed.
Fucking love your content; speak through to power
I trained with them during Gulf War; they are special. Much respect
Hockey isn't a game its military training.
I want Modern Warfare 4 that takes place in Canada and just like in MW2 you spend like an entire mission defending a Tim Hortons
They’re just so darn friendly
Cananda is a Sovietic security state
Why, that’s precisely what the Taliban didn’t say.
Taliban said, “I thought Canadians were friendly, gentle and polite!”.
Only to their friends, just ask Benedict Arnold about that.
Then again, after Arnold was wounded and we surrendered, we were politely escorted and shown our side of the border.
Don’t tell him about what happened in ww1
Respect. Be well Ryan!
As a Canadian thank you ryan for posting. Rcmp and State troopers do competitions every year. We don't have the biggest military in the world but we have the best trained soldiers in the world and I stand by that statement
If Canada was that great it’d be a state. I stand by that statement.
Amd yet they got beat in a competition by the irish who have a pathetic military.
@@davidfinley6708 if America was that great it wouldve annexed Canada a century ago. Buzz off patriot.
That's definitely debatable
@@davidfinley6708 i mean they kicked our ass, twice.
The Canadian army are a lot more than this. God Save The King!
Screw the king....please.
Maple Syrup is the secret sauce, some say Canadians coat their f-35s in maple syrup to make them even more stealthy!
Thanks for the shoutout, and you’re right; our forces are not getting the funds they need. Somehow my fellow voters need to be convinced to make defence a much higher priority.🇨🇦
As a Canadian your evaluation makes me feel proud. We definitely have our issues though.
Yhea first of all manpower were missing 15 thousand men
Second is everyone wants to be an infantrymen in the army while you can do any jobs, popular ones are like mechanics
@@redoqcif they pay more for jobs other than infantryman then people should be more than happy to not be an infantryman right- oh but then you might have a lack of infantrymen so you can't sweeten the deal too much 😭
Starship Troopers refence, nice!
Love from Canada!
Canada also has a habit of adapting smart tactics to help its army punch above its weight, it is basically a lower population, less rich version of the US.
That being said they spring into action when war is justified, declaring war on japan the day of pearl harbor where as the US took until the following day. They also joined both world wars years before the bigger brother to the south.
In ww1 they perfected the creeping barrage, where artillery would fire just infront of advancing men giving them cover and pinning the enemy down just before the Canadians jumped into the enemy trench, helping to capture vimmy ridge, a position the French and English both failed at.
In ww2 they used (and gave the name to) mouse-holing to great effect, a tactic where they would break holes through buildings so that troops didn't have to go to the streets and be exposed to enemy fire to enter the next house, this would also catch defenders off guard as there was a new entrance point with incoming grenades and soldiers.
It is true that along with The arduous Battle of the Atlantic, many Canadian Army units earned battle honours in Sicily and Italy the hard way. There are quite a few histories written by Cdn. soldiers about the Italian Campaign which was characterized by madness, hardship and unrelenting horror.
What a bunch of half true horse shit. Canada wasn’t involved in any major growing campaign in WWII, unless you count the surrender at Singapore or Dieppe. The US was fighting Land Air and Sea in the Pacific and the European theater, ever hear of Guadalcanal? Operation Torch? Etc..
You declared war on Japan ONE DAY BEFORE THE US - WHY? Pearl Harbor is in Hawaii? 🤷🧐🙄
@@derrick4544 Best I can find when googling for why.
Inorder to use the military offensively the US needed to pass a bill about declaring war which took until the following day for everybody to get together and vote.
Meanwhile since Canada was already in a state of war (fighting Germany for over 2 years) it was easier to declare war, being able to skip getting parliament involved. Japan was also attacking positions held by British and Canadians in Asia such as Hong Kong.
@@stevencolor3389 Ok, forgot about the Canadian - UK - Asian connection.
Love Trudy's picture when mentioning the "problems" 😂
Almost fell out of my chair from the “Do you want to know more?” bit
"Would you like to know" more caught me of guard. 😂
They say sorry after every hit shot.
Thats why Canadians are sorry all the time.
As a vet I can tell you two things. Most people who speak on this subject know nothing but political polarization. 2nd funding has not been politically palatable for a long time.
"Would you like to know more?" As a matter of fact I would, does service lead to citizenship?
" If you're a current or past member of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) you can apply for citizenship using a fast-track process."
Short answer is yes, but you must already be a legal immigrant to join.
@@mav.- you really think the average Canadian is that anti-Trudeau? whats so bad that he has done? all people ever do is cite a bunch of conspiracy stuff. if you dont want to be a Canadian, you can leave bro. no one is making you stay. go be happy with your life
No. You leave. I suggest you take up residence in a Nork piss prison. Bye bye!
Not surw, but we did just recently start accepting permanent residence holders into our forces
We’re also so special because we have so much maple syrup
Lack of leadership in CAF is a big problem. Sexual misconduct is also a big problem.
Lack of leadership training as well and the problem of leadership goes further towards the civilian leadership. Sexual misconduct is also rampant in a lot of other militaries so we are the first to tackle it heavily. There is also a misunderstanding of the mindset and personality that a soldier has by the civilian population so the rules and regulations fall short to handle the issues while still keeping the force in tact.
There is also a lack of recruitment and a lack of retention, in both desire and ability.
I would say lack of leadership isn’t the issue - there is a lack of junior ranks as recruitment has slipped.
If they streamlined recruiting, it would help a lot. (Allow local MD's to make the call on medical issues, not have it all centralized in Ottawa & leave it to a doctor who's never met the applicant...that alone would speed up a lot of applications)
Should not have screwed around with PLD. Everywhere is expensive to live right now, and since the military is roughly 16k personnel short, it wasn't costing the government much.
(To put this in perspective, it saved the government $30M a year. Trudeau tried to award the WE Charity a $500M sole source contract...)
They're special for the way they say, "Sorry!" after every shot
Canadian Military: Oh ya we're kind but we like to maintain a pretty traditional canadian military mindset
Someone: oh being super nice?
Canadian Military: Google Canada WW1 war crimes
I think once the gas started coming at them all bets were off
candian military giggling: ask use why we don't have an airborne regiment anymore
@RedFox jack Jesus... I forgot about the Somalia Affair.
One of our guys gets sniped going through a town. Welp better force evac all the civis and burn the whole place down.
@@Redfoxjack nope now we have the special forces regiment
They both get to pretend to not be the airborne
And give us something to point at when they ask questions about our special forces so that we e don’t have to akwardky explain we’re not really sure where the JTF2 are
What they’re doing
Or how many of them are
Cause they couldn’t be watching us right now
So shhhh
Regardless of our capabilities, as a Canadian, I am extremely grateful for our relationship with the U.S and allies
Bro when you said problems and pan over trudeau..
Just fantatic timing.
The problems run deep…CANADA officially admitted that it can’t make the 2% GDP spending on defense/NATO military….for the for the foreseeable future.
We can just reduce our immigration targets, reducing gdp this making our NATO target easier and we can reduce the demand for new housing.
What could go wrong?😅
*Cue even worse deficits and labour shortages
@@FoxInTheBasement Trudeaunomics …then again we’re so systematicly screwed no matter what.🤷🏻♂️
Oh I’m sure we can, it’s frustrating that they won’t let’s us spend that money of it!!
Not that we can't. The Liberals won't.
As a former member, I'd say fixing the way the military can spend it's budget is actually a lot more useful than raising our spending to 2% of GDP
Each year, DND has to return approx $1B of its budget to the government as it was 'unspendable' as per Treasury Board rules. So there isn't a point in giving us more money if we can't even spend the money we currently do get
Now we have tampons in all DND men's rooms....
“The Canadian army has some problems”
* zooms in on Trudeau *
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Canada is an interesting military situation. On one hand historically the people that choose to fight from there are are highly competent. On the other the country as a whole is fairly against military spending.
The canadians are nice AF and will be peaceful but God help ya if you get the canadians pissed of at ya by attacking them or an ally they will eat your lunch
They will eat your lunch, as long as the US is available to transport them.
The CAF can't muster 400 men for a peacekeeping deployment and doesn't have the capability to operate without ally assistance.
@@TheOwenMajor Glad to have the canadians as close friends n allies
@@TheOwenMajor Sounds like Canada needs to improve on that that I wonder why they haven't been encouraged to make those changes
In hockey and war, losing isn't an option with us...
Ive always said theres 2 countries i wouldnt wanna fight. 1 is canada the second is australia both in ww2 were kicking some serious butt. Even if technology wise theyre not the hest of the best by sheer drive youre gonna crap on yourself.
They’re really well paid too. I was talking to a Canadian corporal in the 90s, he said he made $45000 a year.
I think he was exaggerating a bit. I was CFR'd but paid at corporal 3 rate in 1989 (because Clp3 is more than 2Lt1) and I think I made about $50 per day before deductions from my mess etc.
Cost of living is gross here in Canada, 45K is barely liveable
@@bluecheesehasmoldinit I feel for you bro, 10k isn’t enough for food for a year.
@@reaper4641that was the 90s so it probably went up a good bit.
@@originalname610 avg is about 68K per year now, still not great in the Canadian market. The lack of government support for our armed forces is disheartening to say the least
Love the starship troopers add in😂
"there's no canada like a french canada..."
Thanks for the kind recognition. Yes… as you suggest, recently because of Canadas roles in peacekeeping, however Canadian fighting men and women have over performed since WW1: starting w Ypres 1915, the Somme/Beaumont-Hamel 1916. Vinyl Ridge 1917 and Passchendaele 1917. And many other engagements since.
I tend to put it down to great training and BEING CANADIAN! 😊🍁But then I am biased.
(In the name of Can/US long-standing friendship, I thought it best to not mention 1812) 🫣
You speak the truth. Thank you.