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The most damning thing about this is the Canadian gov would struggle to find 300k people in the rest of the population that it would trust with skilling up in those ways. Federal public servants will be the last bastion of the values they try to force on everyone else.

It is in the process of spending vast amounts of money to remove guns from legal gun owners that are subject to absolutely amazing amounts of oversight already.

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I don't think this is true. It's just much easier to bring in people when you have access to them to ask directly, basically.

In my short experience in public service, I met a great number of people who were not in lockstep with the so-called "values they try to force" (i.e. the political plans of the current government), so it seems they're not doing a great job of "forcing" those values if that's the plan.

They have enough problems keeping the people they currently have in the military on the same page.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-caf-charges-terrorism-...

The general response to this was amazement that the MP or RCMP actually did anything about it, given what occurs within those.

HN seems to hate this but you're right. The type of people the military relies on are not in power in Canada and haven't been for some time.

Especially when most of them are in Western Canada, which keeps threatening to leave.

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