Look man, plain and simple, if you wanna be "only" mine clearance you wont find it the CF.That was my biggest goal , to do lots of mine stuff. I never found it in 12 years in a large amount. They dont do it daily no matter what anybody tells you,they do it when its a threat, theyre not out clearing big minefields intentionally and i dont blame them,why should they, thats a job for us NGOS or commercial companies as they have alot more stuff to do. If they didnt put it out it there why should they take it out. Its very labour intensive and once again They have alot of other things to do. They are at a hightened point now having to deal with IEd and being in an area like in afghanistan and im sure they have to deal with a mine everynow and then that will get you closer.... BUT if you wanna clear mines as a job thats only available as a civi. I got out to do that and i love it. But unless youre gonna get out and join an african demining team for 9 dollars US a day to get qualified and live in shi** the best chance is be an Engineer First in Canada , or go join the UK EOD as a Soldier entry first to cut the cra* and get there earlier might help you.
As for Dogs, i work with dogs daily as well where needed and they work very well in certain conditions BUT they also dont replace a sapper for war type stuff as was mentioned. Humanitarian Deminig a compeletly different story then military stuff as we have a different set of things we are responsible for which is much more detailed. One dog i have here did Bomb work for Donald trump, sting and avril lavgine and he works great as a Mine dog as well due to his being a bomb dog first... But as everybody said they have their limitations and i still would take a sapper first for the military application stuff.