Posted on 11/11/2025 9:41:32 AM PST by Twotone
The Canadian Forces is counting on public servants to volunteer for military service as it tries to ramp up an army of 300,000 as part of a mobilization plan, according to a defence department directive.
Federal and provincial employees would be given a one-week training course in how to handle firearms, drive trucks and fly drones, according to the directive, signed by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and defence deputy minister Stefanie Beck on May 30, 2025.
The public servants would be inducted into the Supplementary Reserve, which is currently made up of inactive or retired members of the Canadian Forces who are willing to return to duty if called. At this point, there are 4,384 personnel in the Supplementary Reserves, but in the case of an emergency, that would be boosted to 300,000, according to the directive from Beck and Carignan.
While the supplementary recruiting push will “prioritize volunteer public servants at the federal and provincial/territorial level” the entry standards wouldn’t be strict, according to the nine-page unclassified directive.
“The entry criteria for the Supplementary or other Reserve should be less restrictive than the Reserve Force for age limits as well as physical and fitness requirements,” the document noted.
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"Mobilization" for what?
Invading Iceland?
Jennie and Stefani got this.
The thought of these snivel serpents trying to survive a day on the range, let alone a week, is... hilarious. I wouldn’t trust them not to hurt themselves with a slingshot, let alone a firearm.
I know some retired Canadian military
They tell me the USA could march across the border today, and there would be almost no military opposition, and half the Canadian population would immediately support the USA.
They’re going to give a desk-riding pencil pusher one week of training and send him out with a loaded firearm? Whoever thought that one up should be writing TV comedy.
The breakaway provinces, that’s what for.
Can’t have no runaway slaves.
Remember how the Canadian government cracked down on the trucker protests back in 2022?
Ottawa can’t have such freedom (oops, I mean lawlessness) occur again. So maybe that plays a part here.
Guess so, if Canada needs an army of 300,000
Maybe their primary mission will be suppressing dissent against the liberal and globalist agenda and facilitating the demise of western culture
So Canada’s going to stock the military with bureaucrats? What could possibly go wrong?
The McKinzie brothers are officer material.
Break out the tutus.
We’d also teach them how to say the letter “o” properly.
Canada should be embarrassed knowing that it doesn’t have the resources to defend its own country. A nation the size of Canada with less 200 thousand personnel on active duty. What a joke. Then they get all high and mighty acting as if they’re a really important country and insulting the people south of their border who they depend on keeping them free.
As I started reading this I thought it was the Babylon Bee.
Giving 300K postal and DMV employees firearms is a really stupid idea.
To subdue their natural born citizens who oppose becoming a third world country.
“They tell me the USA could march across the border today, and there would be almost no military opposition, and half the Canadian population would immediately support the USA.”
That probably would be equally true if Russia or China invaded.
Canada is a joke.
Beats me. We haven't invaded them since 1812...
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