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You beat me to it! I see your Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and raise you my Six Sigma Master Black Belt!
He's not wrong about record spending, but our GDP has grown as well so the percentage stagnated.NATO chief Stoltenberg hails allies’ record defense spending
“Last year we saw an unprecedented rise of 11% across European allies and Canada,” the NATO secretary-general told reporters in Brussels.
He mentioned Canada lol.
Lost but making good time…He's not wrong about record spending, but our GDP has grown as well so the percentage stagnated.
The first place I heard the term “tall poppy syndrome” was in Australia.
No, he’s actually not wrong. It depends on certain departments and agency. My DND clearances were not recognized when I went to another department. And as a reservist working at DND I had two clearances lol. They actually made me do a new one when I joined as a PS lol even though I had one as a CAF member.
When I went to Public Safety while still in the CAF as a Reservist, I had to start from scratch.
Do you know if the security clearances are based on what specific function your are being to perform? Comparing police officer to border agent to government accountant to various CAF members?
I believe the answer is "yes". Each functional group should have it's own unique requirements. Infantry can be enrolled with an ERC, but you'd eventually need Secret to operate sigs equipment.
I've had some Reg F MPs join our agency who had to start from scratch as well, even though they'd CT to the P Res to work for us.
Yup. My first CAF clearance was "here, fill these out and sign them". Two years later, voila. My last one consisted of an interview with DPM Secur to make sure I wasn't that "other guy" with the same name and DOB and a long criminal history and conduct sheet.
The thing is that up to a certain level, everyone will go to the same information source to check for issues and then the only unique thing is their departmental stamp. I can see if going to other levels that the process and information seeking/sourcing becomes unique then it should be redone.
That rapidly morphed into TQL (Leadership) as more of our senior clowns sought to civilianize the CF, a move that has again morphed into the org we have today!
The other thing is also that some hiring managers can risk manage their hires. Someone with bad credit or a criminal record can still be hired. say for example in a mail room at heritage Canada. They get their clearance cool. But they transfer to the RCMP at Corporate Management Services then maybe that isn’t the best place to be risk managed so the only way to check is to redo it. Not to mention anything that could show up after they get their clearance.
Exactly. If you're going to put a high level risk into the RCMP, they'd better be a director or better!
Well. Played. Sir.
That's "Sir (retired)".
Unfortunately, even Cpls are suspect these days.
I have read a few books on espionage and its not always the higher ups you target. Compromise cipher clerks (in the olden days they coded and decoded messages) executive secretaries (Markus Wolf was a genius at this) and other low level people that have access to high level secrets.
