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The reward for that the risk is access to increased opportunities for education/employment at another location. People everywhere else in the country (if not the planet) move or change themselves to adapt to where there is employment. There is no obligation for people to move if they value...

Why is it unreasonable for there to be reduced health services in isolated locations? The argument for the equality of human life doesn’t magically make money appear out of thin air to pay for services. The local financial output/labour productivity/tax base of the area determines what...

Is “adulting for them“ part of what it means to be a good leader? I’m only half trolling this time... I’ve only been in a few years but sometimes the CAF feels like a large daycare with 50% adults and 50% children. Is it unreasonable to expect to work with other professionals who are...

I used professional trades interchangeably with knowledge workers. Where their primary contribution is cognitive ability and problem solving as opposed to physical labour. HR, finance, log, healthcare, maintainers, cyber, pilots, planners, etc. The previous posters suggested that drill allows...

How many CAF members actually need to be proficient in drill and is it worth the opportunity cost? Can we just have a ceremonial unit or even just have hired actors to fulfil this illusion of professionalism? I work in a non-combat arms trade and I can’t see the value of drill for knowledge...

What’s the overlap between responding to employment specific drills and generic drill? Should we shut down our flight simulators and have our pilots horse around on the parade square instead? I’d argue that it’s the practice and repetition of employment specific drills that provides for...

I think this is a good point. Is being on leave a military duty? And therefore entitles us to additional health/VAC coverage? Or is it just for the narrow case that we’re on leave and we get recalled from leave (duty begins with the recall)? And we also need to be injured during this recall to...

What’s the recruiter (or any of us) to do though? Is it a manifestly unlawful order? Is he going to rock the boat and risk his career over this issue? He has very few viable options to voice his concerns. Perhaps this is why threads like this are so cathartic. I’d argue that it would be short...

Isn’t this exactly what we’re all frustrated about? The disappointing realization that we work for an ugly self-serving organization? That individuals everywhere are trying to reconcile their personal values against a workplace full of lip service and hypocrisy? Edit: I think we’re using...

There’s a lot of talk about how EE is commonplace and appropriate. If what the recruiting group is doing is appropriate, acceptable, and in line with CAF ethics and values, why is this article or our EE policies scandalous? Shouldn’t we be proud these institutional values and serve to...

I totally agree with your concerns about “equality of outcome” for EE groups. I’d argue that lower standards for EE groups would cause more long term harm than any short term benefits in diversity optics.  The decision to have separate entry standards for EE groups could in fact cause the very...

EE seems reasonable when there’s two applicants of equal potential. What happens if the EE applicant is not equal?  If we assume that EE and non-EE applicants have similar normal distributions of potential, won’t the smaller EE pool have a smaller pool of people at any potential cutoff level...

Military members aren’t permitted to make any comments that might reflect discredit on the CAF. By definition, any public or official information will only provide one point of view. Have you tried contacting any military doctors at our medical clinics? A personal phone conversation or a chat...

The contingency cost move is a great idea. My goal is to explore all my administrative options and propose a number of viable options to my CoC (i.e. let them choose between the value of my labour, their budget for contingency postings, their desire to rock the boat with me and support my...

Refs. A Leave policy manual - Chapter 8 B. QR&O 16.25 - Leave without pay and allowances I’m considering applying for a one year period of LWOP for personal reasons. My spouse has found employment in a specific location for one year and it is unlikely that I will be able to be posted to that...