An approximation. Your most recent post before this thread made mention that you were starting your MP QL3s in mid January, which at six months course duration for your 3s would have had you graduating in mid July. I may be off by a bit. Since you didn't join the reserves until the summer of 2012, and had your CT in within a year of that, I feel pretty safe with 'barely did anything'. That was purely in response to you smugly dropping the 'toon' card.
I don't know everything about the MPs, far from it. I offered my own particular observations and knowledge from some limited exposure, and a bit over a decade of CF service in which I've spoken with MPs on a number of occasions and seen them working operationally. And having previously been in the position of doing ride alongs, I offered my observation that ride alongs with the MPs will likely be quite dull, and that he would probably have more exposure to operational policing with a municipal force. At no point did I slag the MPs. You guys have a different role. Frankly I wish the CAF was better at using the MPs in a provost capacity. I have several buddies who have deployed in the close protection role, which is something your trade does pretty well. You guys certainly have some very interesting career opportunities that are difficult to access in a non-military police service. But a civilian ride along won't get to see any of that. A ride along with an MP Det on a base won't be seeing the field stuff, they'll see the MP equivalent to general duty policing. They would see the same with a municipal service, but with their time more efficiently exposing them to a variety of calls.
Please do not think for a second I have any scorn for the MP trade or its role. It's merely a different beast, but you guys are still badged and armed police officers and are part of the brotherhood. There are things you guys are good at and there are shortcomings, as with any military trade or police service. What I took issue with was you assumign that my presentation of facts meant I was trying to deter him from joinign the CAF or the MPs, nor that my entire knowledge of the trade came from a month and a half of ride alongs more than a decade ago. Those assumptions, and the backhanded slur at reservists, are where you stepped on toes.