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

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

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #65
mmooss wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can they be allies with neither? They are trying to improve relations with the EU and, most importantly, are members of NATO (where the US is also a member).

Economically not really. China and the USA are the top economies, and China is only going to get more economically powerful, alignment with one or the other in trade at least is inevitable. The EU will be making similar decisions to Canada, and I doubt Canada is going to detach from Europe.

China is completely dependant on other countries for it's economic power (mostly the US) as an export economy.

They're also staring down a demographic crash, soon (10 - 15% drop with 25% of the remaining polution over 65).

They are basically at their peak right now.

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

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Post by bell-cot »

ninalanyon wrote: post #53

24 000 reserves out of a population of 40 million seems like a rather small number. Norway has 40 000 in the Home Guard (Heimevernet) rapid reaction force of volunteer part time soldiers and a further 20 000 reserves. All from a population of about 5.5 million.

Vs. Finland has reserves of 870 000 from a population of about 5.6 million.

Via the magic of universal male conscription:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Defence_Forces#Conscri...

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

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Post by iinnPP »

SirFatty wrote: post #35
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Canada right now is trying to figure out if the greatest their to their security is China or the USA. They can tie their boat to either against the other, but they can't be allies with both.

"Canada right now is trying to figure out if the greatest their to their security is China or the USA." I very much doubt that is true. Unless the Canadian government get's their information only from "truth" social.

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

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

Odd how this is on front page of HN but buried way down my feed on (Canadian) Google News and doesn't seem to be front-page news?

Do you have to be a public servant or retired Canadian Forces, or do they take portly middle-aged out of shape software engineers, too? Asking for a friend.

Haven't shot a gun since Bible Camp when I was 12. Could be fun.

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

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #81
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Economically not really. China and the USA are the top economies, and China is only going to get more economically powerful, alignment with one or the other in trade at least is inevitable. The EU will be making similar decisions to Canada, and I doubt Canada is going to detach from Europe.

China is completely dependant on other countries for it's economic power (mostly the US) as an export economy. They're also staring down a demographic crash, soon (10 - 15% drop with 25% of the remaining polution over 65). They are basically at their peak right now.

> China is completely dependant on other countries for it's economic power (mostly the US) as an export economy.

That is Trump's big lie, but it has no basis in reality. This was the cornerstone of Trump's whole pressure agenda on China, and it imploded quickly when the Chinese indicated "We don't care about the American market, trade is only 5% of our GDP, and we have lots of trading partners."

> They're also staring down a demographic crash, soon (10 - 15% drop with 25% of the remaining polution over 65).

Investments in AI and automation make that iffy, investments that, beyond AI, the USA is not making.

> They are basically at their peak right now.

That is the core of Trump's big lie on China, and again, has no basis in reality.

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

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Post by jack_tripper »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #62
goalieca wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The USA is a fantastic ally! When a small aircraft was recently hijacked from Vancouver international airport, guess which Air Force came to our rescue? Thank you!! While there’s a lot of news and media about trade wars with the USA, the vast majority 85% of it remains under the free trade agreement. China does not even come close to a free and open market for us and their state sponsored corporate espionage is a rea…

China didn't strongly suggest that Canada should become its 23rd or 24th province. Also, if the USA keeps dipping its feet into fascism every other 4 year election cycle, every other western democracy is going to start pumping lots of resources into a plan B

>China didn't strongly suggest that Canada should become its 23rd or 24th province.

China ransacked and then sank Nortel.

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

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

jack_tripper wrote: post #86
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

China didn't strongly suggest that Canada should become its 23rd or 24th province. Also, if the USA keeps dipping its feet into fascism every other 4 year election cycle, every other western democracy is going to start pumping lots of resources into a plan B

>China didn't strongly suggest that Canada should become its 23rd or 24th province. China ransacked and then sank Nortel.

So? If we are going to talk about economic damage, the USA isn't going to come up looking better.

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Post by TulliusCicero »

electric_mayhem wrote: post #57
gpm wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US has been consistently signalling that it is considering annexing us since Donald Trump was re-elected in November of last year... the politicians are unlikely to say it outright but I think this is pretty clearly aimed at the US and making it too costly to do so.

Canada would be insane to not beef up its military at this point. Mexico should, too.

That Mexico has zero tanks or infantry fighting vehicles or real self propelled artillery might tell you how they've felt about the odds of the US actually invading again.

(IMO they should get some of these things even if there's no chance of the US invading, given how much firepower some of the cartels have.)

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

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Post by jack_tripper »

iinnPP wrote: post #83
SirFatty wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Canada right now is trying to figure out if the greatest their to their security is China or the USA." I very much doubt that is true. Unless the Canadian government get's their information only from "truth" social.

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

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Post by wk_end »

goalieca wrote: post #36
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Canada right now is trying to figure out if the greatest their to their security is China or the USA. They can tie their boat to either against the other, but they can't be allies with both.

The USA is a fantastic ally! When a small aircraft was recently hijacked from Vancouver international airport, guess which Air Force came to our rescue? Thank you!! While there’s a lot of news and media about trade wars with the USA, the vast majority 85% of it remains under the free trade agreement. China does not even come close to a free and open market for us and their state sponsored corporate espionage is a rea…

Neither here nor there, but the plane was hijacked in Victoria and then flown over to Vancouver.

(Only picking this particular nit because, as a Victorian, we constantly live in the shadow of our bigger brother, so I need to shout us out when I can. And I fly out of the flying club that the plane was hijacked from, so it's a story that's particularly close to my heart.)

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