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Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC
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Halifax Tar
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This thing
Colin Parkinson
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Depending on the Employer ,
Voluntary , or mandated, OT at time-and-a-half would be required to cover the Reservist's work schedule while absent.
Would likely be Leave Without Pay from the Employer. Would the CAF make up their difference.
Would Leave of Absence be granted by the Employer,
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The problem then becomes people deciding not to hire "reservists" in the first place and/or releasing them "for cause", or because they need to lay people off, at the first opportunity.
The solution is to flood the market with people with "reserve obligations" so that it is difficult to find people that are not "reservists".
In Canada employers don't find many reservists in their stacks of applicants.
In Finland and Singapore they don't find anybody but.
In a lot of countries, they are likely to find a lot. That effectively means they have to accommodate reservists. It also means that a lot of employers are likely to be subject to personal reserve obligations themselves.
And would require a massive tactical pause to focus on BMQ training and leadership development.
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Lotsa guys that retired or released young would probably sign up if and only if the CAF gave a frig about them, or even bothered to ask how they’re doing and if they can or could help out.
One of the reasons the CAF is not all that interested in the reserves is they need full time bodies onboard to trigger treasury contributions to SISIP, without which the plan would collapse or cost so much per retiree that it would raise eyebrows and alarms. A complete change in force structure would - (and this should happen anyway) - likely trigger a change to a DB pension system rather than the over generous DB system that currently exists. Unpopular opinion I know, but the cost per employee of the PS, RCMP and CAF is more than taxpayers can bear, it grossly unfair to the general population, and creates a cruise towards retirement work force rather than produce until you drop (like everybody else has to). It’s not the 1960’s anymore.
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100k reservists?
-Some units still send only a section worth of soldiers on exercise.
-Not enough instructors.
-Not enough equipment.
-Not enough training space.
-The ability to only show up once a month or two.
Sounds like a throw away coa.
-Some units still send only a section worth of soldiers on exercise.
-Not enough instructors.
-Not enough equipment.
-Not enough training space.
-The ability to only show up once a month or two.
Sounds like a throw away coa.
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Someone in MND office floated a trial ballon to see how it would be received.
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And with our terms of service you would need a reserve 3-4x the current size to be regularly generate staff for courses. Given the spending increase has us now sitting over 2%, training space and equipment are a matter of putting our money where our mouth is.
This new ready reserve coa though, i think is a bad idea as what I heard was its for select trades with civilian equals, after BMQ they only train 5 days a year. Thats it, basically its maintaining a pool of trained professionals incase of a ww3 scenario. Its a step up from the Sup Res, but a step down from the primary reserve.
I think we would have better luck just changing the rules so that all qualified members leaving automatically stay sup res for 5 years.
Either way this would require changing the NDA, and if we are doing that, we might as well change the PRes and pass national job protection legislation and make reserve training mandatory, and not a show up when you feel like it.
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SISIP has nothing to do with pensions.
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Sorry you’re right. Service related pensions.
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Respectfully disagree.
I understand the Navy has decided to "repatriate" recruiting to the Naval Reserve Divisions.
I suggest that the Army do the same AND move BMQ back to the Armoury floor. That would simply be returning the universe back to what it was in the age of the dinosaurs. Teaching people to show up on time, how to wear a hat and who to salute doesn't require specialized skill sets. And everybody gets to know each other and figure out if they really want to work together.
That would take a load off the centralized training system. Those St Jean instructors could spend their time training trainers.
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Why? Our training establishments should have enough Reg F PYs so that they can deliver all centralized training to all components during peacetime.
We used to have two tiers of Sup Res, so that is not new. I don't see what the problem with this is. We don't need surgeons running around Meaford for 35 days a year so that they can be ready to do surgery on an international operation or during a domestic emergency. Even a mechanic after preliminary training can be adequately prepared on five days a year to go turn wrenches in the corps support area. The key requirement is maintaining currency in the profession or trade via civilian employment.
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Im working with the reality that the Reg force wants the reserves to be self sufficient, which it is not capable of doing at its current size with the current TOS. Yes it would be great if the reg force could train all the reserves, but that would also require more regular force and larger schools. As it stands if we want regular augmentation, and domops response from the reserves, we need more troops period, not less or the status quo.
That’s fine. But some of us are living the current reality.
It is. We ran one on our armoury floor. Last year. We’ll be running another this year. There are very few units that can actually run their own BMQ without a serious draw down on other stuff they are expected to do.
Reservists rarely go to st Jean. I had two guys we course loaded a couple of years ago out of dumb luck.
Not sure what info you are working off of…
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We usually have 1 part time bmq during the training year, then about 3 in the summer. Summer ones are usually wainwright or Suffield
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Being an MSE Op Reservist had no effect on my application for a full-time municipal career, or being fired "for cause".
There was never a lay off. But, even if there had been, it would have been by seniority.
If fired, or laid off, for being a Reservist, there would have been a lucrative grievance / arbitration settlement from the City.
Got my "leave of absence with pay, for the two week period of absence, to attend the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve Training Program" every summer.
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So you were saying that the Reserves would require a tactical pause?
