Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k • Hacker News Board

Re: Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k

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Post by raydev » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 4:34 AM UTC

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #161

wyldberry wrote: post #139

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"ending last November" - Is the implication that a Trump presidency implies a risk of invasion from the South? Canada has relied greatly on the United States providing a blanket defense guarantee of the continent. The Canadian military is currently operationally worthless across the board, save the cyber domain. There are many reasons for it that I'm not here to list out. However, that does come with grave consequenc…

There were literal statements of annexation. Brushed off by some "that was a joke" but they were made. Lets not downplay that fact.

It's downplayable because Trump isn't actually serious about it. He's serious about something until he learns what's possible. Some things are possible (absurd tariffs), other things are not (declaring war on a bordering country).

Re: Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k

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Post by testing22321 » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 4:42 AM UTC

jjk166 wrote: post #264

testing22321 wrote: post #235

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A external war that triggers a civil war would be a great way to cancel elections now wouldn’t it.

If you are in a civil war and a war with a foreign power at the same time, you're already suffering the worst possible consequences of cancelling elections.

Not when holding onto power is the goal. Force and more force.

Re: Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k

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Post by raydev » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 4:49 AM UTC

This is likely an attempt to appease Trump on one of the many silly demands he's making in the silly tariff negotiations, this one being increased military funding. Gotta find something to spend money on.

Re: Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k

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Post by raydev » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 4:52 AM UTC

qball wrote: post #58

jjk166 wrote: post #41

Seems like a generally good idea for creating a large reserve force. It definitely beats general conscription. I don't see why Canada in particular needs such a large reserve force. This would jump Canada from number 127 to number 52 in terms of percentage of population in reserves, and bump it up to 17th in terms of absolute reserves size. For a nation with basically zero chance of invasion of its home soil and an e…

>For a nation with basically zero chance of invasion of its home soil and an extremely low risk of internal conflict Clearly the Canadian government doesn't feel the same way. If they tried to conscript they'd quickly find themselves in a civil war (for the same reasons the US would), and one the Canadian capital clearly doesn't believe it'd win given how well it fared defending itself in 2022. Of course, bureaucrats…

> Clearly the Canadian government doesn't feel the same way

Not clear at all. One of Trump's demands during this tariff negotiation mess was that Canada isn't spending enough on defense.

So now Canada is finding ways to spend more.

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Post by Sabinus » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 4:55 AM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #279

triceratops wrote: post #143

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> Democrats fear and loathe him, so they pursued all kinds of legal actions against him while he was out of office So maybe he should'nt've have broken laws. Not give them anything to pursue.

That would be a valid argument if the prosecutions against Trump didn’t involve legal gymnastics like the ones Google uses to make all their profits appear to have been earned in Ireland: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-was-convicted-...

That case was a bit weird and motivated. Weird in the same way as the prosecution of Hunter Biden for lying about drug taking when getting a gun license, but weird nonetheless.

What wasn't weird were the other cases that didn't complete before Trump was re-elected and ended them.

He certainly did try to directly ask for votes 'to be found'(the Georgia case), overturn the previous election with Jan6 and his general rhetoric(the DC case), and steal and conceal boxes of classified material (the Florida case)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_prosecution_of_Donald_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_election_racketeering_...

Re: Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k

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Post by Sabinus » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 4:59 AM UTC

naIak wrote: post #151

wagwang wrote: post #119

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No you have a duty and obligation to the society that raised you.

I was raised by my family, thank you very much.

What happens to your family when the conqueror from the next country over rolls into town?

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Post by Sabinus » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:01 AM UTC

scotty79 wrote: post #292

wagwang wrote: post #232

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Can I unchoose my obligation to my 2 year old or am I a slave.

Of course you can. You are an adult. Your actions and perceptions define what kind of a person you are though. If you perceive your 2 year old son as your forced obligation you are a slave and other things as well. And it's by choice.

Couldn't I say that if you perceive fairly-operated, defensive war conscription to be a forced obligation that you are also several pejoratives? By choice.

Re: Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k

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Post by pyuser583 » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:14 AM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #130

jjk166 wrote: post #96

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The US invading Canada isn't a realistic possibility. Any attempt to do so would trigger a civil war within the US, to say nothing of obliterating the geopolitical system. Attempting to annex in any way shape or form is currently nothing more than the musings of an old man, the only way any territorial changes could happen are through peaceful, mutually agreed upon transfer. If the US were to seriously entertain the…

> The US invading Canada isn't a realistic possibility Of course it is. Troops would just be moved to “temporarily” occupy shit we want. (Or move to liberate Alberta.) Hell, you could probably do it with ICE agents. > Any attempt to do so would trigger a civil war within the US You’d take up arms against the U.S. because it invaded Canada? Of course you wouldn’t. Neither would others. It would be brushed way as an an…

It’s so hard to read these comments and not have the song “Blame Canada!” in my head.

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Post by petre » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:14 AM UTC

hollerith wrote: post #159

palmotea wrote: post #132

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> A large nuclear exchange between great powers (and currently there are 3 great powers, the US, China and Russia) would be followed by the use of conventional military forces. E.g., The US would try to capture and hold the major ports of the power or powers that attacked it because holding those ports is the most effective way of denying the power the ability to deploy its own conventional forces outside its own ter…

The Soviets had no hope of capturing any ports or any territory in the continental US: to do that would mean first destroying the US Navy, and they knew they could not do that. So, their plan focused on the next best thing: namely capturing the part of the European plain they did not control already (namely, West Germany, the low countries and maybe the part of France occupied by the Germans in WWII) then hoping that…

Sure, France and the UK are just going to sit and watch Russia occupying Northern Europe. And btw, the Nederlands has US nukes on its territory.

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Post by palmotea » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:30 AM UTC

naijaboiler wrote: post #186

palmotea wrote: post #148

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> So maybe he should'nt've have broken laws. Not give them anything to pursue. It's not so simple: 1) everybody breaks laws, and 2) in at least one case those laws were stretched and abused in unusual ways to specifically target him (his felony convictions, which unsurprisingly were immediately turned into an electoral attack). I'm not a Trump fan, but I'm not a Democratic partisan either, and I think that prosecutio…

No sir, everybody does not break laws. Only people who routinely do like Trump thinks everyone else is doing it. That’s why he’s so sure he can find cases against his perceived political enemies only to find out the in thing he can find is the woman bough a second home, which she indicated is a second home, and let her neice stay there. Only criminals think everyone else is a criminal

> No sir, everybody does not break laws. Only people who routinely do like Trump thinks everyone else is doing it.

Everyone does, all the time, without even knowing it. There are so many, and many of them are so broad or vague, that everyone is vulnerable to selective prosecution.

Also, are you telling me you've never broken a law? Never were speeding? Never jaywalked? Never decided you were too drunk to drive, so slept it off in your car?