We need to break the back of far right organizing in the military. This is not a joke, it’s an existential threat to our democracy.
Beyond dishonourable discharges of fascists (and banning them from joining any kind of armed force, eg police in the future), we need a serious and aggressive EDI recruitment policy. I know that the MAGAs and the Poilievrites use EDI as a slur. Which is EXACTLY why we should make it a core tenet of army recruitment. Disgust them, keep them out. And in the meantime, train a new generation of Canadian professional soldiers that are comitted to our constitutional multiculturalism and are as diverse as Canada.
There is already an EDI policy for recruitment in the CAF. Has been in place for at least a decade now.
Let’s be clear; this is an organization with more than 60 thousand members. It is bound to have some extremists pop up inside of it. Best we can do is keeping on what we are already doing: monitoring as best we can (without infringing on the few remaining freedoms soldiers keep), and aggressively pursuing every found Nazis/extremists.
Not to say the CAF is perfect, but it’s petty intense the efforts that have been deployed since 2010 to “prpgressize” the Canadian military.
We need to break the back of far right organizing in the military. This is not a joke, it’s an existential threat to our democracy.
Beyond dishonourable discharges of fascists (and banning them from joining any kind of armed force, eg police in the future), we need a serious and aggressive EDI recruitment policy. I know that the MAGAs and the Poilievrites use EDI as a slur. Which is EXACTLY why we should make it a core tenet of army recruitment. Disgust them, keep them out. And in the meantime, train a new generation of Canadian professional soldiers that are comitted to our constitutional multiculturalism and are as diverse as Canada.
There is already an EDI policy for recruitment in the CAF. Has been in place for at least a decade now.
Let’s be clear; this is an organization with more than 60 thousand members. It is bound to have some extremists pop up inside of it. Best we can do is keeping on what we are already doing: monitoring as best we can (without infringing on the few remaining freedoms soldiers keep), and aggressively pursuing every found Nazis/extremists.
Not to say the CAF is perfect, but it’s petty intense the efforts that have been deployed since 2010 to “prpgressize” the Canadian military.