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

[Halifax Tar]

I'd love to know how a non-resident made it through the recruiting process and into basic in THREE MONTHS

I have no idea. I've been to many of the places these folks come from, their record keeping is really non existent. I don't know how you could prove anyone's identity of age at the very least.

 

[WestIsle]

Bullshit on PSOs and TDOs trying to water down the CAF.

Direction to abandon CFAT and other dubious choices were made at rank levels well above them.

No PSOs definitely wanna push people through the recruiting system if it means meeting their targets instead of addressing anything else. Like making MCpls redo the CFAT when attempting to transfer to in demand officer positions.

I have also seen TDOs read through the answer block verbatim as well as let people write those same answers in their notebooks and bring it to their test if it means the right people amount of people are understanding the material.

 

[McG]

I have also seen TDOs …

When, where, and what did you do about it?

 

[Kirkhill]

Federal government selling off federal assets to generate funds to buy federal assets?

Carney government eyes privatizing airports to attract investment, cut travel costs

Minister says they want to make operations and passenger services more efficient.

www.thestar.com

When does the TMX line go "on the market"?
The ports of Vancouver and Halifax?

The Brits have been talking to transatlantic cable operators about the operators providing security.
The Ukrainians have been requiring their weapons manufacturers to provide their own air defence.

How about the Feds sell off all these facilities and get rid of the security liability then require the operators to meet certain security standards under Federal regulation?

CATSA and the Commissionaires get new mandates?

 

[brihard]

Federal government selling off federal assets to generate funds to buy federal assets?

Carney government eyes privatizing airports to attract investment, cut travel costs

Minister says they want to make operations and passenger services more efficient.

www.thestar.com

When does the TMX line go "on the market"?
The ports of Vancouver and Halifax?

The Brits have been talking to transatlantic cable operators about the operators providing security.
The Ukrainians have been requiring their weapons manufacturers to provide their own air defence.

How about the Feds sell off all these facilities and get rid of the security liability then require the operators to meet certain security standards under Federal regulation?

CATSA and the Commissionaires get new mandates?

I don’t know what the current ownership and operations structure of Canadian ports is. I was surprised to learn that Ports America, the largest independent ports operator in the U.S., is 100% owned by… CPP Investments.

It makes sense that the Feds will look to free up federal equity in existing completed infrastructure projects to seed the new fund. Which projects that ends up being? Who knows. TMX would make sense.

EDIT: These couple replies would probably fit better in another threat. The pipelines/infrastructure one would make sense,

 

[daftandbarmy]

Meh PRs and lack of CFATs aren’t the issue. The fact we think we need to pass 100% of recruits is.

I am all for a heavy culling during recruit training for unsuitable candidates, we do a disservice by pushing to pass everyone even when it is obvious they don’t belong.

Most jobs have a 3-6 month probationary period where they can dismiss people for any reason at all. The CAF needs to practice that (if not longer/more aggressively) and weed out those unsuited before they get too far in their careers.

I was part of an organization that failed about 80% of all recruits, most of whom were amongst the highest rated nationally during the intake process.

Stats showed that about 80% of those who didn't make it with us went on to other units and were accepted through other recruit training processes. I met a few of them later and they all had done well in their 'second choice' units. About 20% of those we rejected left the military altogether.

I guess all that to say: we're selecting for the 'whole CAF' so it's a good idea to make sure the quality coming in is the highest possible to avoid wasting everyone's time and resources.

 

[WestIsle]

When, where, and what did you do about it?

Bold Eagle at the battle school in Wainwright. The higher ups knew but who is going to tell some Major from Ottawa what to do.

I mean hell apparently during the 50th or so anniversary before COVID the school was told that everyone must pass.

 

[dapaterson]

No PSOs definitely wanna push people through the recruiting system if it means meeting their targets instead of addressing anything else. Like making MCpls redo the CFAT when attempting to transfer to in demand officer positions.

I have also seen TDOs read through the answer block verbatim as well as let people write those same answers in their notebooks and bring it to their test if it means the right people amount of people are understanding the material.

PSOs and TDOs did not decided to rush PRs through the system.

PSOs and TDOs did not decide to remove the CFAT.

PSOs and TDSOs executed orders from people at much higher ranks.

MCpls whose original CFAT does not qualify for their desired officer occupation being told to redo the test is a feature, not a bug.

 

[dangerboy]

I taught on several courses at different training centres across Canada and have never seen a TDO interact with any candidates, let alone be there when they write tests. I have seen standards representatives administer tests, or the chain of command be there to assess the instructor, but that is it.

 

[Kilted]

I'm really hoping that those examples are the only ones - that they found all the worst ones and dumped them all in 1 article.

Well, the unfortunate thing is that if enough people (regardless of their citizenship status) join the military with those attitudes, at least some of them are going to finish training and be posted to an actual unit. The really scary part of this is that they are talking about officers, on the NCM side of things, I'm pretty confident that a lot of these issues would be dealt with at the lowest possible level once they actually made it to their units. With officers, especially those who don't like to listen to the advice of SNCO/WO's there are a lot fewer people to actually deal with them, who don't always have a lot of direct contact with them.