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I know my unit used to give the full time staff one day off to compensate for a weekend ex. I never got the math how working an extra two and a half days turns into compensation for one.

Are CIC officers more or less useful than public servants in this context?

MRES?

The numbers for this don't really seem to add up. They are looking for 300,000 volunteers from the Federal Public Service, which according to AI is currently 358,000 with 40,000 layoffs coming. So that is basically everyone.

I actually thought that I was looking at the Beaverton to begin with. How many public servants would actually sign up for this? Is there any extra incentive for them. Is this eventually going to be a requirement of working in public service, where someone is enrolled automatically upon being...

In Soviet Russia.....

I have been surprised that the knives didn't come out for PP after the election, probably due to a lack of competition. However, you do have to think that those thoughts are there considering that the last election was likely originally going to result in a Conservative majority. Now we have a...

And one of our instructors would spend the rest of their lives in jail.....

I'd feel sorry for anyone who had to be staff on a BMQ full of conscripts.

We would be forced to conscript women, the charter would require it.

Sounds similar to the Ontario Corps.

The one we aren't suppose to talk about.

A certain news agency is reporting that the CAF is looking to have a plan in place to increase the size of the reserves to 400,000.

Based on the statement from today, it looks like the King will request that Parliament remove his title.

Well, maybe if the crusty old people that still have Garrison Dress started wearing it, it might catch on. Friday is Halloween.