Fighting has generally never been an issue for Canadians.
Agreed.
It’s sums it all
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” – Thucydides
I am thinking of how we can get more rifles into action to flesh out our Infantry arm and get immigrants who will be good for Canada in the long run.
Fix the recruiting process - I can guarantee that none of the Nepalese Ghurka candidates want to wait 18 months in a recruiting pipeline, and you will mostly end up with folks who you don't want who would be willing to wait.
If we could get the process even to less then 100 days, we would see in roads galore
I'm somewhat perplexed that is can't be done inside 14 days.
I would just tag onto the UK recruiting process and keep them in a separate HR function. They get paid less than a Canadian but still good wage by their standards. Currently the UK takes a small fraction of applicants. The biggest challenge is going to be finding the Canadian Officers and NCO's. Eventually train up Gurkhas to be NCO's and just have Canadian Officers. Lease a base in Eastern Europe for stationing them and training them for now.
I’m just not seeing anything that is a net benefit to the CAF in this sorry.
Might as well just hire mercenaries if you're just looking for cheap, foreign troops. I hear Wagner Group is available....
How about roll the medical into day 0 bmq?
Brings a whole new meaning to the term "Freedom Convoy" So where would Wagner settle? East coast but Irving would not like the competition.
If I remember well, there a total of 12 to 16 hours of clerical stuff in all the enrolment process. That’s the paperwork load. The rest is waisted in waiting for action on the files. Actions like interviews, medical appointments, security clearance. All of those are somewhat out of recruitment group.
So pay to fly people to St. Jean just to tell them they don't meet the standards for the trade they chose, or don't meet the standards for the CAF?
Atleast that way we would be processing them quickly, could we incur increased travel costs? Yes, is it worth it if we see a large jump in recruits ? Yes
Is the bad word of mouth, and increased work load on an already overworked medical system worth it in reality?
There isn’t any reason that couldn’t be done at a local Health Care facility, or Family Doctors office, and it would be significantly cheaper.
It as been tried. We received a recruit that when to that process. The civilian contracted MD didn’t understand why a person with a handicapped arm should not be able to be a gunner.
