Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[Furniture]

Take a look at the strategic intake plan and match up red trades to their recruiting targets then come back and tell me if its a good trend.

The CAF is fine.... Recruiting 10K more boatswains when we need 200 more MarTechs is peachy.

Between "own goals" and poor messaging, we fail to recruit the support trades me need. I distinctly remember an idiot MWO in my trade talking about how the next trade video with all the cool "high speed" shots would fill the ranks... It got people interested int he CAF, but not in doing the job we needed them to do... People joined expecting howitzers, F-18s and RHIBS, then got handed a snow ruler and an observer's notebook.

 

[daftandbarmy]

The CAF is fine.... Recruiting 10K more boatswains when we need 200 more MarTechs is peachy.

Between "own goals" and poor messaging, we fail to recruit the support trades me need. I distinctly remember an idiot MWO in my trade talking about how the next trade video with all the cool "high speed" shots would fill the ranks... It got people interested int he CAF, but not in doing the job we needed them to do... People joined expecting howitzers, F-18s and RHIBS, then got handed a snow ruler and an observer's notebook.

It's almost as if the CAF could use a targeted (vs. open) recruiting strategy, like thousands of other businesses use

Open vs. Targeted Hire: Comparing Recruiting Strategies

Compare the differences between targeted and open recruiting methods to determine which one is ideal for you, including the benefits of a targeted hire.

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Targeted Recruitment Strategy: Types, Benefits & Tips • Toggl Hire

When roles are more competitive or hard to fill, recruiters turn to targeted recruitment strategies. Unfamiliar with a targeted hire? Read on!

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[Kirkhill]

Defence Investment projects announced

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/first-projects-new-defence-procurement-agency-9.7005569https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/first-projects-new-defence-procurement-agency-9.7005569

Subs
OTH-R
AEWC aircraft
Herc upgrades and support
Satellites

 

[Kirkhill]

First artificial intelligence at satellite-level "spies" on Earth — It just made a historic discovery in Canada

AI satellite uncovers historic discovery in Canada, transforming Earth observation technology and revealing secrets hidden from scientists for decades.

www.eldiario24.com

Satellites, Ai, Lithium deposit, Quebec, James Bay, James Bay port, Ontario Ring of Fire, batteries, EVs .....

Talk about intersectional.

 

[lenaitch]

Yes, but where were the contracts 5-10yrs ago?
Why were we buying Chinese steel for CDN warships or CCG vessels? It boggles my mind in how shortsighted the vast majority of people are in positions of power or within the unwashed masses.

• Because we wanted things as cheap as possible.
• Because we wanted to be seen as an open, 'world-citizen' economy.
• Because so much of our military/nautical/government procurement of big metal things has been so inconsistent and years apart that no mill can survive the years in between. It is much more economical to produce rolled steel that goes into autos and soup cans that are produced every day.

 

[Kirkhill]

Oh, they’re serious.

Seriously incompetent and corrupt.

That doesn't matter. All that matters is that they are seriously focused on implementing their intent.
And we have to adjust accordingly.

 

[Kirkhill]

The CAF is fine.... Recruiting 10K more boatswains when we need 200 more MarTechs is peachy.

Between "own goals" and poor messaging, we fail to recruit the support trades me need. I distinctly remember an idiot MWO in my trade talking about how the next trade video with all the cool "high speed" shots would fill the ranks... It got people interested int he CAF, but not in doing the job we needed them to do... People joined expecting howitzers, F-18s and RHIBS, then got handed a snow ruler and an observer's notebook.

Maybe you will find your 200 MarTechs among those 10,000 bos'ns when they realise what a MarTech is.

 

[Kirkhill]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-says-204902614.html

Another one of Carney's buddies - a new investment fund 1500 BUSD for defence investment, 500 BUSD more than baseline.
It makes a change from green investment funds.

Dimon is also concerned that Europe and the EU should get their act together and try to maintain trans-atlantic links.

Per Carney we are still planning on spending 70 cents of every defence capital dollar in the US. Perhaps we can tap that pot as well.

Jamie's pot - 1500 BUSD
EU's pot - 150 BEuro (175 BUSD)

 

[Ludoc]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-says-204902614.html

Per Carney we are still planning on spending 70 cents of every defence capital dollar in the US.

No we aren't, per Carney, we are literally planning to do the opposite.

Canada joins EU defense fund as the country pivots away from the US
"Carney has said he intends to diversify Canada’s procurement and enhance the country’s relationship with the EU. He has previously said that no more will over 70 cents of every dollar of Canadian military capital spending go to the U.S."

 

[Kirkhill]

No we aren't, per Carney, we are literally planning to do the opposite.

Canada joins EU defense fund as the country pivots away from the US
"Carney has said he intends to diversify Canada’s procurement and enhance the country’s relationship with the EU. He has previously said that no more will over 70 cents of every dollar of Canadian military capital spending go to the U.S."

I misunderstood.
Thanks.

 

[dapaterson]

It's almost as if the CAF could use a targeted (vs. open) recruiting strategy, like thousands of other businesses use

Open vs. Targeted Hire: Comparing Recruiting Strategies

Compare the differences between targeted and open recruiting methods to determine which one is ideal for you, including the benefits of a targeted hire.

www.indeed.com

Targeted Recruitment Strategy: Types, Benefits & Tips • Toggl Hire

When roles are more competitive or hard to fill, recruiters turn to targeted recruitment strategies. Unfamiliar with a targeted hire? Read on!

toggl.com

So...

Annually the CAF reviews every occupation for its current strength, forecast changes to targets, forecast changes to numbers at each rank, identifies intake and training requirements.

There are specific targets by occupation set for intake based on a variety of limitations such as training capacity.

Promotional materials are made for every occupation on a cyclic renewal basis.

And certain occupations are designated as priorities.

However...

Non professionals run the system. Occupations veto their own promotional materials. So you end up with materials that appeal to senior members of the occupation, rather than to new folks considering it as a career. Perhaps the most infamous one was new applicants turning down an occupation based on the weird hats some people were inexplicably wearing in the video. While the RCA though having IGs and AIGs featured in recruiting videos was great.

 

[quadrapiper]

So...

Annually the CAF reviews every occupation for its current strength, forecast changes to targets, forecast changes to numbers at each rank, identifies intake and training requirements.

There are specific targets by occupation set for intake based on a variety of limitations such as training capacity.

Promotional materials are made for every occupation on a cyclic renewal basis.

And certain occupations are designated as priorities.

However...

Non professionals run the system. Occupations veto their own promotional materials. So you end up with materials that appeal to senior members of the occupation, rather than to new folks considering it as a career. Perhaps the most infamous one was new applicants turning down an occupation based on the weird hats some people were inexplicably wearing in the video. While the RCA though having IGs and AIGs featured in recruiting videos was great.

Those are the least-weird weird hats available in the Army... and at least there's a brim, unlike the inexplicably not-weird felt skullcap.

 

[daftandbarmy]

So...

Annually the CAF reviews every occupation for its current strength, forecast changes to targets, forecast changes to numbers at each rank, identifies intake and training requirements.

There are specific targets by occupation set for intake based on a variety of limitations such as training capacity.

Promotional materials are made for every occupation on a cyclic renewal basis.

And certain occupations are designated as priorities.

However...

Non professionals run the system. Occupations veto their own promotional materials. So you end up with materials that appeal to senior members of the occupation, rather than to new folks considering it as a career. Perhaps the most infamous one was new applicants turning down an occupation based on the weird hats some people were inexplicably wearing in the video. While the RCA though having IGs and AIGs featured in recruiting videos was great.

So that explains the 'main effort' on posters and mall displays "like back when I was doing recruiting (before 9/11)"

 

[RangerRay]

Those are the least-weird weird hats available in the Army... and at least there's a brim, unlike the inexplicably not-weird felt skullcap.

AKA the beret with no material to pull over to one side?

 

[RangerRay]

That doesn't matter. All that matters is that they are seriously focused on implementing their intent.
And we have to adjust accordingly.

Too many view incompetence as unserious.