Never
Again
Volunteer
Yourself
I seriously considered signing up with the Canadian Armed Forces in 1980, out of HS, but then Rocky Waterhole (Pierre Trudeau) was Prime Minister. I figured, as he had been a member of a Communist organization in his 20s, and how displayed much animosity toward conservative US Presidents, I figured that if there came a war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, Waterhole would side with the USSR.
At 18, I was not prepared to potentially be fighting against cousins from the US, who were part of the US military. If Canada were attacked by the US, and I were in the CAF, yes, I would have defended my country, but Canada siding with the USSR in a war? Therr was NO WAY that I would fight for Trudeau’s Canada!
Now, at 62 years of age, as an ALBERTAN, I want us to leave Laurentianist Canaduh! As a kid growing up in Ontario, I didn’t realize how much Alberta was treated as a ‘colony’, a ‘milch cow’ by Central Canaduh (Ontario and Quebec). I understand how the American colonists felt about Great Britain, at the time of the Revolution.