Yes, nice to know that the military industrial complex is still very much a concern on the feeble minds of certain yahoo Harpercons. According to a cable released by Wikileaks to APTN, it would appear that the now demoted esteemed redneck of Edmonton-Center, Laurie Hawn is a tad disappointed these days. He was sooo hoping that the economic downturn and high employment would’ve led to higher recruitment in our armed forces. Naturally, ol’ Laurie can’t be reached for comment.
The cable, titled Challenges to the Transformation of the Canadian Army, noted some of the difficulties the Canadian Army faced in the recruitment and retention and its troubles with procurement.
Did they just say “procurement”? Paging Robocop Fantino! About recruitment? Well, here are more highlights from the cable:
Hawn told U.S. officials that the army was also having trouble processing new recruits, because the “Canadian Forces’ best trainers were often on deployment in Afghanistan,” according to the cable.
Hawn noted, however, that the more pressing problem was the early retirement of “NCOs and officers” as a result of the “prospect of serving multiple tours in Kandahar.”
The cable notes that “despite recurrent pledges” by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “government to re-build the capabilities of the Canadian Forces,” the army faced a series of challenges including procurement and recruitment.
“The Canadian Army still faces serious funding, recruitment and procurement challenges as it seeks to meet pressing requirements in Afghanistan while also transforming itself into a medium-weight service capable of conducting both major combat and counterinsurgency operations,” said the cable.
Ok, stop right there! If the Canadian army has a funding issues, how can it afford to pay new soldiers? Does it expect the soldiers to work for free?
Oh, Stevie does really want us to be more like the most tea-baggiest worst of the redneck of the US, doesn’t he, including that military industrial complex. Here’s a scary thought. What if Stevie Spiteful and the Harpercons were to deliberately keep unemployment high in the hopes the unemployed would enlist?
Let’s also remember that in the US, the military is also the biggest employment program it has to offer. Scary, innit?
It seems that NDP MP for St-John’s East, Jack Harris, has asked that shrew, Diane Finley, about this in Question Period today, to which, she gave a short and typically feeble one size fits all standard Harpercon answer “We support workers”, whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean. NEPers, I really hope you keep at ‘em with this, as that kind of thinking could lead back to conscription! Say, perhaps, making the unemployed enlist? Let’s remember what Stevie Spiteful thought of the unemployed:
“In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don’t feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don’t feel bad about it themselves, as long as they’re receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”
Given what was revealed in that Wikileaks cable about what that yahoo, reportedly revealed and what Stevie Spiteful really thinks of the unemployed, plus, Stevie’s obvious love for going to war, is conscription really that far fetched an idea in Stevie’s mind?
Conscription is something, Quebecers have historically rejected, I might add. Something the NDP should think about when questioning Harpercons in Question Period.