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I think you're seriously overestimating the degree to which the Prime Minister or even the PMO is making decisions about minor issues like prayers from the Padres and Dress Instructions. I really doubt any of this was dictated from government. Especially the dress instruction changes; that...

No, that's accommodation.

This comment (and, well, this entire debate) IMHO exemplifies "To those you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." You're not discriminating against Christianity by not having it be acceptable that it be the default setting for public events. The fact that the government...

Dude you dropped your tin foil hat.

Having well meaning words of remembrance can still hit that comforting tone, without alienating those who are irreligious. This is just nonsensical. At no point in my career have I encountered prayers that were obviously Hindu or Muslim in nature. I certainly can't say the same about obvious...

On a day to day basis, how much of your average chaplain's work day is actually spent on religious practice? If it's over 5% I'd be shocked. Perhaps religious practice was the justification for having chaplains when the position was created, but we've moved well past that point. The chaplain...

Cultural practices are not inherently religious practices. One can stop having the government promoting the latter without needing to abandon any aspects of the former.

The only people I can recall ever having seen advocating for the return of the square rig are retirees, and officers who wouldn't have to wear it anyways.

Man we're bleeding people for a reason. Yes, perhaps more so in some occupations than others, and those occupations probably correlate strongly with trades that also have in-demand skills. Folks aren't getting out because they love taking a pay cut.

At the end of the day "We should be compensated for hardship x y and z" is going to fall flat. "We need to be compensated better or else in 10 years you're not going to have a Navy left" is a tad more convincing, but presumably isn't working either. So anyways, I don't fault anyone who pops...

It doesn't matter if we're the best paid military in the world or the worst. We're not competing for people against other militaries. What matters is how well we're paid relative to the other employers in Canada. You know, those ones that oh so many of our personnel are leaving us for because...

Because the system knows what your Forces e-mail is, and does not know what your preferred civvie e-mail is until you tell it..

Specifically, it announced a military member of the board who quite recently served as Director of Cadets at RMC. That decision alone certainly gives me the impression that "the fix is in". Maybe eventually one of these days the department will actually implement the recommendations by one of...

I mean, sure... But if someone is telling you that they don't like being away from home so much, then we know very much so that a career as an NWO does involve a boat load of just that. No, but within the CAF there's occupations that travel more and occupations that travel less, and NWO is...

Fine, whatever dude. Honestly, your attitude is IMHO emblematic of exactly what is killing our retention. God forbid that when people tell you what they want, leaders actually try to listen to them. Maybe even change things to accommodate. Surely our principles of leadership don't suggest that...

Look, I don't mean to be rude, but when someone's telling you what they want, you should bloody well listen to them, even if it's not the same thing that you would have wanted at their age. People are perfectly capable of determining for themselves which things they want in their lives, and for...

Certainly not going to dispute that. Although I would argue it's a bit more critical for the CAF than for the rest of the various government employees. Out staffing situation is, as far as I can tell, significantly worse, exacerbated by the fact that we, unlike everywhere else, can't just hire a...

For what it's worth, the dress instruction changes last year weren't a top down thing either. They were prompted by a BN drafted up by the Defence Women's Advisory Organization. But yes, obviously force TB to give money isn't an option. Convincing them that if they don't open up the purse...

At no point in my career have I ever seen anything actually be done on CAF Day. Which honestly is great, because who the heck wants to come in to work on a weekend just to "celebrate" one another?

Ultimately, TB was dead set on sticking to the budget allocated back in 2008, and didn't give a hot damn about the fact that we're bleeding personnel. They told the CAF to come up with something that fits those constraints, and CMP did. It sucked and is stupid, but given the constraints I...