Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[QV]

They are literally the least desired postings beyond FN’s now. They are runnings 20-30% vacancy and posting GIS positions 5 or 6 times in those places- nevermind the front line positions.

No members are signing up for a military base.

How’s recruiting going for you now?

 

[Booter]

Poorly. And they certainly aren’t signing up to go overseas. International policing is struggling hard (for a variety of reasons) . These aren’t the fellas that signed up when asked during the second world war. .

 

[RangerRay]

Wait - was he a Freedom Fighter or a Terrorist?

Where I live now, he’s considered a Father of Confederation. I’m not sure how someone who took up arms against the Confederation can also be considered a father of it too…

 

[RedFive]

Poorly. And they certainly aren’t signing up to go overseas. International policing is struggling hard (for a variety of reasons) . These aren’t the fellas that signed up when asked during the second world war. .

Weird. Its almost like the further we get from the Afghanistan "you will go out with the ANP, ANA and their CAF mentors and take the fight to the enemy" days of international missions, and the more we focus on "we need to send women on this mission because optics" the less interest and uptake there is.

I also know a non-zero number of Mounties who went and did that, and fought shoulder to shoulder with CAF OMLT team members and their mentees who were then denied the GCS that people who never left KAF got, because the CAF decided the RCMP was "civilian only".

There is absolutely still a core of RCMP members who can and will step up to the plate if the bell gets rung and the gloves come off, but the number grows smaller by the day.