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The bilingual version, as used by the Government of Canada and certain Montreal sports teams, is actually the most religious version, as it includes both the English references to God and the French references to carrying the cross.

The strict 1100 timing has often been honoured more in the breach than in the observance. Once I formed up for the base service on Simonds Parade Square in Petawawa — participants were anyone who didn’t get tasked to get on a bus to one of the Ottawa Valley towns. The weather was miserable, the...

Ottawa actually has a murder rate below the national average — it’s just that Ottawa residents prefer to commit their murders in the downtown core, which ensures maximum visibility.

Highest ranking member of the British Army that died on active service in Northern Ireland during Op BANNER was LGen Erskine-Crum (GOC Northern Ireland, late Scots Guards), but that was of natural causes. Highest ranking member of the British Army killed by the IRA was Colonel Eaton, Royal...

Not just court rulings. Last year’s report from the Advisory Panel to the Defence Minister made a pretty solid run at the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service. Circling the wagons to try to protect the existence of the capbadge isn’t just something for the Army Reserves. I think that the last three...

White top and blue trousers (with a red stripe!) — presumably for a snowstorm in the Pepsi bottling plant.

Such naive Islanders. You don’t pay for railroads, the railroads pay you!

So… there goes that theory. So what is the actual point of patrols? Change of command parades and weddings tend to be held in June, is the white version supposed to be the one that the troops buy first?

If the new Army Service Dress is decent and presentable, then 1C/1D patrols are indeed probably redundant for 99% of the Army. I suspect that the decision to push patrols was made without knowing about the DEU replacement project. Classic right hand/left hand.

Power would shift, but much of it would shift to the GTA and Queen’s Park. A Canada-without-Quebec would have almost exactly 50% of its population in Ontario. Admittedly, I haven’t crunched the numbers on how long that would last — Ontario‘s population is growing faster than Alberta but slower...

There‘s a difference between surviving as a country (which Quebec obviously could) and prospering as a country (which is very doubtful). Quebec currently has a GDP per capita well below the Canadian average, but that’s still ten times that of Tunisia. On the plus side, an independent Quebec...

Elections are expensive and the NDP seems to have lost the ability to fundraise. Thus, they are terrified of elections. Last I heard, they are still in debt from the last federal election. Hence, their current status as LPC lapdogs. The alternative option, multiple unstable minorities leading to...

I was thinking a little bit of both, actually. The pre-1920 force, but also given that since today, 61% of Canada’s population, a majority, live in Ontario or Quebec, I’d expect something like 61%ish of the organized crime and other federal responsibilities to be in those two provinces — maybe...

I’d extend your WAG to the ultimate objective being the quiet de-amalgamation of the RCMP back into the equivalent of its two precursor forces — the Dominion Police, a mostly plainclothes, mostly Ontario and Quebec based, force that did whatever the federal priority of day is, and the North West...

Yes and no. CANFORGEN 012/17 removed the requirement to have a valid medical category in order to be promoted. On the other hand, a valid FORCE test is still a promotion requirement. In theory, a disability that didn't affect your ability to do PT (a missing eye for example) wouldn’t affect your...

The new DEU 3 is appropriate for court martials and testifying in front of parliamentary committees, when full high collar scarlets/blues are considered a little too fancy for the occasion. The RCMP similarly have a service dress that is a step down from red serge. Now, whether everyone needs...

There’s also the Wing Commander with a relaxed approach to firearms and hunting regulations — that one’s being tried in the civilian courts.

While PP is a member of the Privy Council based on his previous service as a Cabinet Minister, it is customary to admit leaders of the opposition who lacked previous cabinet service. That is how the PC postnominal was granted to Michael Ignatieff, Tom Mulcair, Preston Manning and Andrew Scheer.

That’s not accurate. Pierre Poilievre has been a member of the Privy Council since 2013.

While 3D Tropical Service Dress has actually been removed from the CAF dress instructions, I can understand someone wearing it if in a tropical environment if they still have a closet full of the stuff. Still a little rebellious, but it is issued (if obselete) kit. That isn’t an option for most...