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Op nanook is class C, reg force pay system
17 Oct 2026: Major fire at CFB Wainwright
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Moving off topic folks....
Any know if the Loyal Eddies (and other reservists?) were there as part of the 3 PPCLI task force workup, or were the Eddies also incidentally in the field at the same time? I’m guessing these were all reserve augmentees to 3 VP?
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Well, potential to be 3 (4?) distinctions of possibilities for Reservists, from any Unit from across Canada, impacted by the Wainwright MCI:
Class A: Any of them there just working a couple of Class A dates to support?
Class B: Contracted out with TC Wainwright itself or potentially Edmonton to support?
Class C: Potentially contracted with CAF for upcoming overseas deployment.
It's all well and good now with PM Carney adivsing Canadians that we will look after everyone and all of them. We know that any Regular Force members certainly will be (even if differently amongst them too) - 24/7 and all that heat and light on Wainwright MCI 17 Oct 2026.
I'm worried about long term for any reservists impacted --- and what VAC will rule years out from now when the heat and light is off about "your contract that day ....", "not Class C, Not an SDA" etc etc. Fuck even Regular Force are having to fight/fight/appeal/appeal.
SDB, SISIP, VAC ... take 'yer chances depending on your 'employment status' that day. For the immediate heat and light show we've got them. Canada's got them. The PM says so.
It's their future fights I'm worried about because precedents. Is the PM about to order VAC to treat any of the above classes exactly the same in the future for any/all benefits and entitlements because, by law right now, those are not the same. What about the next Class A soldier/sailor/aviator injured on a range or a normal Class A training day? Is the system going to treat the the same way? If not, I foresee a Class Action (another one!) in the future.
Hell - even for the Regular Force personnel involved their mileage may vary with VAC in the future: Were they tasked on DTG in question to upcoming deployment thus falling under "operational" ... or were they merely (sarcasm on) RegF personnel there supporting/reacting/assisting thus not "operational" ... because, frankly, that's where VAC distinguishes and discriminates.
Time to start treating every single soldier, sailor, aviator the same when they injured doing their damn jobs. Same troops side by side in same incident with same injuries are potentially NOT the same, nor entitled to same by VAC and the insurance agencies that decide ...
That sucks. That's the devil in the details of this MCI.
