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The Misadventures of Our Northern Syrupean Neighbors Continue – HotAir

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Honest to God. The Canadians have no clue whether they’re coming or going anymore.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has been ‘We’re in!,’ ‘We’re out!,’ ‘We’re in!’ so many times in the past two weeks, it’s tough to keep track of precisely which flip or flop he’s on.





The best guess landed fish of the moment is, ‘Out.’

And the man is such a World Economic Forum snek, you can’t tell if it’s heartfelt – if he even has one – or if it’s just another move to placate his Chinese masters.

Or, perhaps, his fascination with all things Islamic, considering who is suddenly eligible for asylum in Canada.

This is very Keir Starmerish, don’t you think?

And the asylum should have small rubber rooms for these two ‘leaders,’ with what they’ve let into their respective countries.

Melissa Lantsman is the Conservative Party co-deputy and a member of Canada’s House of Commons.

What I found interesting, though, buried in the stories behind all the hubbub of Carney’s impotent, risible posturing, were two more stories about the sad state of the Canadian military.





One was an addendum to a newer story, and I’ll start with that.

It’s cold in Canada – the government knows its troops operate in a unique and dangerous ecosystem.

And yet they were unprepared, lacking proper berthing equipment. Something as simple as a warm sleeping bag when one was in the Arctic field.

Two years ago, 350 troops spent a frosty late November complaining about ‘issues related to a lack of warmth‘ with their new sleeping bags.

Dudes – being warm is mission-critical stuff.

They wound up handing them the 1960s-era GI Joe bags to make due with until they could get them something that kept them warm.

Despite the defence department spending more than $34.8 million on new sleeping bags, the Canadian Army asked late last year that hundreds of soldiers headed to a joint northern exercise in Alaska with the Americans be issued with old, 1960s-vintage bedrolls.

Troops who had used the recently issued General Purpose Sleeping Bag System (GPSBS) late last fall in a preparatory exercise found “several critical issues,” according to an internal briefing note obtained by CBC News.

More than 350 soldiers belonging to the 3rd battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI) deployed to Ram Falls Provincial Park, west of Red Deer, Alta., in late November last year, where they spent several days training for northern operations.

Temperatures during the deployment ranged from – 5C during the day to – 20C at night.

The “critical issues” discovered by the soldiers “related to lack of warmth with the new GPSBS,” said the briefing note, written on Dec. 5, 2023.





Put some socks and t-shirts in the bottom of those, and they are pretty toasty, especially if you sleep in sweats and tuck your dry towel in there. But with all the uber-mountain climbing technology around now, CANADIANS do not have outdoor compliant cold weather gear, when you can climb Everest with minimal weight now?

How is that possible?

…During the training exercise last fall, soldiers reported that even though they used both the inner and outer shells and slept in tents heated by stoves, they were still cold.

According to the internal briefing note, 3 PPCLI’s quartermaster concluded the new sleeping bags were “better suited for use in weather conditions that are characteristic of late spring to early fall” and were not practical “for typical Canadian winter conditions nor the extreme cold of Alaska,” where the troops deployed for further training in January.

This had to hurt – USA to the rescue again.

…The briefing note recommended that soldiers deployed on that exercise with the U.S. be “loaned” 500 of the army’s old Arctic sleeping bags — the ones the new system was meant to replace.

Color Canadian soldiers unimpressed and unconvinced that they should trust their tender toes to whatever the government cooks up as a replacement.

…But several soldiers who contacted CBC News with complaints about the sleeping bags said they’re skeptical about those promises, given DND’s failure to deliver on something as basic as a sleeping bag suitable for a Canadian winter.

Particularly as it seems the ‘cold-weather-testing’ part might have been…well..not so tested.





…In its statement, DND said it sought feedback from soldiers — but the department did not answer directly when asked what sort of cold weather testing was done before it chose to purchase the sleeping bags.

“The GPSBS was chosen following a rigorous competitive process,” said the department’s statement.

Don’t worry, stalwart Canadian soldiers – the liberal government has your back…and their shiv is already out.

In mid-February, I told you all about Carney’s latest hare-brained scheme to perk up the wobbly Canadian military by handing out asylum allowances to anyone who wanted to enter the country and join the service.

You get an accelerated immigration status, a uniform, all that good stuff. Conceivably, many of the IIRG members now in Canada have already looked into signing up. In no time at all, Carney should have himself a bang-up force of Asian and Middle Eastern mercenaries that Genghis Khan would be proud of to sweep across the frozen tundra just like they used to on the steppes back home.

For sure, he will have fewer of those native-born Canadian types, as word of the latest military misadventure has, unfortunately, broken out of the press embargo.

And, once again, has to do with the cold-weather mishaps you would think would rarely plague a cold-weather force.

This time, it’s hands, fingers, noses, and toes that froze, and in Alaska, again.





Even worse, the Mark Carney’s Department of National Defence TRIED TO COVER IT UP. The incident happened in February, but wasn’t revealed until today after multiple soldiers contacted the media.

More than 30 soldiers had to leave the exercise because of the extent of their injuries.

A few were even hospitalized.

And since this was in Alaska, this all happened in front of the Americans.

Didn’t Mark Carney promise to vastly improve our military? How can our soldiers be treated this way?

These poor, abused kids. And Carney tried to cover it up.

More than 30 Petawawa troops suffer frostbite during Arctic exercise

More than 30 soldiers based in Petawawa suffered frostbite injuries during a recent exercise in Alaska, prompting concerns about the quality of equipment military personnel are issued.

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Soldiers contacted the Ottawa Citizen to complain that the Canadian Army was trying to cover up details about frostbite injuries to more than 60 troops who took part in “Exercise Global Resolve” in February. A number of frostbite cases were extremely serious, the soldiers added.

…Several members of the Petawawa-based 3rd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment suffered frostbite serious enough to be hospitalized in Fairbanks, Alaska while practicing light infantry tactics in an Arctic environment, the Edmonton Journal reported.

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There was no explanation for the discrepancy between what some soldiers were saying and the numbers the Army confirmed.

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The Canadian Army did not make the incident public until soldiers started contacting news outlets. Details are circulating on social media citing 60 to 70 injuries.





VURT DA FURK

The Prime Minister is covering himself with…something. It’s not glory.

As for the state of the Canadian armed forces?

How about a trip back to 2024?

To nobody’s surprise, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has replaced outgoing Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre with a key mover involved in the Liberal government’s woke military “culture change” agenda.

Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan will become the first woman to hold the top position in the Canadian Armed Forces after being appointed its new chief of the defence of staff. The change in leadership comes during a recruitment crisis for the CAF.

Carignan enrolled in the CAF in 1986 and in 2008 she became the first woman to lead a combat force in the Canadian military. She is currently serving as the military’s chief of professional conduct and culture – a role invented by the Liberal government to rid the military of systemic racism and harassment.

They went from tanks and tents to tampons.

…Carignan’s office published a military guiding document last year which aimed to overhaul the toxic culture of the military, which it claimed to be rooted in “colonialism,” “patriarchy,” and “heteronormativity.”





HETERONORMATIVITY*

*denoting or relating to a world view that presents gender roles as fixed and heterosexuality as the normal or preferred sexual orientation aka NORMAL IS BAD

‘Five years to prepare’ as long as a conflict with Russia or China doesn’t require warm sleeping bags or winter gear or white men to fight it.

Well, what white men the general doesn’t freeze to death, Carney will make sure are shoved aside by the new recruits he’s wooing.

It’s gonna be a helluva country in no time flat.


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