Personally, my ābig questionā is how will our Allies view us as a military; the changes are far more broad than Iād thought they would be, if I am honest. There will be the possibility of a mbr to be in DEU with skirt, multiple earrings, gel nails, with long hair dyed blue and a beard dyed pink. If that mbr is on a picture on say, a BBC/CBC/CNN article how will Canadians and our Allies react?
Should we/do we need to care about that?
As to COs/Chiefs and others making their own dress regs; there will be some push back no doubt from those who donāt like the changes. There likely was with weed too and they donāt get to make their own rules. I suspect there will be some clear direction from the most senior leadership on this subj.
There really should be no surprises at the CO/Chief level when this is officially public consumption (in details) and detailed at the unit/sub-unit levels.