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Originally Posted by Traum
Whatever form it comes in -- drafting, aggressive recruitment efforts, voluntary enlistment -- a whole lot of Canadians of different ethnicities will be sent to the front lines if the Russia-Ukraine war expands to a much larger region in Europe. That's essentially what 68style is alluding to.
I have no particular good or ill will towards him, but remember that Harjit Sajjan (our former defence minister) was born in India, and he was deployed to Afghanistan a number of times. I have a friend whose twin brothers grew up in Vancouver, and they are both in the reserves.
The "billions" that 69style mentioned is money, not soldiers. (After all, Canada only has a population of ~39M.)
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Everything you talked about there was done voluntarily.
And as for Sajjan, the guy is the poster boy for stolen valour. Not exactly apt comparisons to Canada suddenly enlisting people who have trouble interacting with cashiers at grocery stores.
Canada is pumping all this money to Ukraine because they have never met their NATO or defence obligations, so in typical JT liberal fashion, you throw a bunch of money at the problem blindly and hope it quiets people down for a bit.
Didn’t Slovakia and Poland come out and say they are no longer going to financially support the effort? Why should Canada if countries who are literally on the door step of the war don’t?