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Not sure why the military thought the immigrant population would want to join the forces here - LOL.
https://www.westernstandard.news/canadian/canadian-military-recruitment-program-for-immigrants-finds-few-applicants/51762
Canadian military recruitment program for immigrants finds few applicants
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Jonathan Bradley
Jonathan Bradley
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21 Jan 2024, 2:00 pm
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) said a program to recruit immigrants has seen only 77 applicants succeed at enlisting to date, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Between Nov. 1, 2022 and Nov. 24, 2023, the Canadian Armed Forces received 21,472 applications from permanent residents,” said the CAF in a briefing note.
“Seventy-seven permanent residents have been enrolled.”
While thousands of immigrants applied, the CAF said they faced lengthy security checks.
It rewrote regulations in 2022 to permit landed immigrants to enlist as soldiers, sailors and air crew to obtain speedier citizenship. It called the processing of applications “a challenging and time-consuming process, which we are trying to expedite.”
“There are important and necessary measures which need to be completed such as security checks and medical evaluations,” it said.
“As well, the validation of security clearances generally takes longer for permanent residents.”
With the CAF recruiting group, it admitted it accepts trained applicants from foreign militaries. These applicants include pilots, logistics and infantry officers and other skilled professionals who might become enrolled if they have permanent resident status in Canada.
“This enables other permanent residents who meet the same criteria as Canadian citizens to enroll in the Canadian Armed Forces as new recruits or officer cadets,” it said.
The CAF turned to foreigners’ enlistment amid sharp declines in Canadians' enlistment, which fell 35% in 2022 from 8,069 to 5,242 people.
Defense Minister Bill Blair said in November more soldiers, sailors and aircrew were leaving the CAF faster than can be replaced with new recruits.
READ MORE: Blair warns Canadian Armed Forces shrinking
This is happening when there are a great deal of priorities such as conflicts in Israel and Ukraine and domestic search and rescue operations.
“There is a real challenge in the Canadian Armed Forces,” said Blair.
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A very interesting opinion piece by Keean Bexte. I haven’t been much of a fan of his for some time. I found his rants much like Rath’s…way over the top. However, maybe he’s mellowed because this has me thinking.
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Mark Carney does not have a one seat majority.
Not yet.
But Ottawa is already acting as though one more floor crossing is inevitable, as though it would be stabilizing, as though it would crown Carney as unassailable. That assumption is wrong. And it should give pause to any Conservative MP currently flirting with the idea of defecting.
If you cross the floor and hand Carney a one seat majority, you are not his greatest asset.
You are his hostage.
A government that survives by a single vote is not strong. It is deeply vulnerable. And the people with the most leverage in that environment are not the newcomers who just arrived. They are the vestiges of the Trudeau era who never left.
Steven Guilbeault. Karina Gould. Others who believe this party was theirs before Carney arrived and should be theirs again.
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IVAN RAND: THE CANADIAN WHO DEFENDED GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS BEFORE THE CHARTER EVER EXISTED
The Father of Canada’s Implied Bill of Rights (1884–1969)
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1. Early Life — A Child of the Maritimes, Born Into Hard Work and Self-Reliance
Ivan Cleveland Rand was born on April 27, 1884, in Moncton, New Brunswick, to a modest working-class family. His father, Nelson Rand, worked as a machinist for the Intercolonial Railway; his mother, Minnie, raised the family with the strong Christian discipline and work ethic typical of rural Eastern Canada at the time.
Rand grew up in a Canada that valued:
personal responsibility
faith
community
fairness
and suspicion of arbitrary authority
These early influences would shape his entire legal philosophy.
2. Education and Rise to the Supreme Court
Rand attended:
Mount Allison University
Harvard Law School (one of the few Canadians of his era to do so)
He practiced law, served as a law professor, and eventually became Attorney General of New Brunswick.
In 1943, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, where he served until 1959.
He died in London, Ontario, on January 2, 1969, leaving behind a body of ...
