Canada's Military Said to be on 'Verge of Collapse'

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 9/18/02 | Alison Appelbe

[MetalHeadConservative35]

Don't understand why some want to try and make an enemy of our neighbors to the north

ive never heard of that personally the closest ive come about hearing about fighting canada is on the south park movie

[LenS]

The sniping proficiency of Canada's elite forces is not understated.

See the following articles:
1. Americans learn these guys are very, very good and
2.Elite corps draws shy, levelheaded personalities Snipers bristle at suggestions they are cold-blooded killers

at National Post.

The problem is that they don't have much more than that left of the Canadian military.

[Kozak]

Best thing Canada could do to defend itself would be to spend more money on their INS system, stop allowing all the third world immigration, and make an agreement that US will handle any foreign forces that might invade ( lets face it, we will defacto do that anyway ). That would increase the security of BOTH our countries.

[razorback-bert]

Vancouver is becoming the new Hong Kong.

[BlueLancer]

"Maybe then we could break them of that nasty habit of putting vinegar on their french fries!"

Oh, I don't know about that. My Australian wife started me on that (breaking me in with Salt and Vinegar Potato chips) ... and now I won't eat them any other way.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Yeah, well nice sentiment and I would like to see it but it won't happen and here is why. Ever heard of the Monroe doctrine? Well there is a similar, unspoken, doctrine in effect regarding Canada. The US would NEVER let a foreign power gain a foothold in the great white north. Canadian politicians know this and are able let the military rot because the know the Americans will NEVER let anything happen to us.

[N. Theknow]

Canada's Military Said to be on 'Verge of Collapse'

How did he get so tired?

[N. Theknow]

Can you spell "A-N-N-E-X-A-T-I-O-N"? But let it not apply to Quebec.

Did you hear that the Newfies want Quebec to separate from Canada so they will be closer to Toronto?

[dark_lord]

To be realistic, they don't really need a military other than to meet their minimal NATO obligations. I mean, really, does anyone actually think that Canada will be invaded? Other than by the illegals that fly in every day.

[sneakypete]

over my dead body will that ever happen

Can you say,George "The Mexican" Bush? He's the son of Jeb and his Mexican wife,and is being groomed now to take his place in the Bush family business,politics. HE is the real reason Bubba-2 has never met a illegal alien from Mexico he doesn't like and want to make a voter. The nephew will need all those votes when he runs for the office of president of the "North American Union". Remember that useless old statist SOB "Poppy" calling for a "New World Order"?

[Destructor]

"Maybe then we could break them of that nasty habit of putting vinegar on their french fries!"

"Oh, I don't know about that. My Australian wife started me on that (breaking me in with Salt and Vinegar Potato chips) ... and now I won't eat them any other way."

That's exactly what I mean! Basically, our whole way of life as a nation, and our national identity are at stake here!! LOL!!!

[BlueLancer]

"Basically, our whole way of life as a nation, and our national identity are at stake here!! LOL!!!

I never thought of it that way .. LOL ...

But, somehow, I have a difficulty in generating an image of my wife as a French-fry Fifth Columnist.

I mean, after all, she's the only one that I know of who eats her french fries with a fork ... not the way God intended, with your fingers!

[robertpaulsen]

"In 2002, approximately 1600 Canadian forces personnel are concentrated in the southwestern sector of Bosnia (MNDSW). The NATO campaign to protect Kosovars in 1999 was the largest Canadian involvement in a military campaign since the Korean war in the early 1950's."
--canadaeuropa.gc.ca/canada-balkans-e.asp

We appreciate the assistance from our northern friends.

[BlueNgold]

I say we take British Columbia and Alberta, and offer the rest to the Aussies. Or perhaps we could make a trade: give them Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and Mass for the 2 Western Territories! If they're nice about it we can throw in R.I. just to make it an interesting deal.

[JoeU.S.]

"Send a company of marines at once to invade Canada."


Better yet, send the police over and arrest their millitary. It should take about a half hour.

[Charles Martel]

Eastern Canada? Blech. Maybe take it over, then sell it back to the French for some nice bottles of wine.

I'll bet the Cajuns would like to take it back. Socialism bad, Gumbo good!

[hosepipe]

Now thats news... A mornin' wake me up.. lol.
< snide > Canadian militay..Hum!. Is that arrmy, Air Force or Marines, could be Navy. Maybe their all one division. < /snide >

[oyez]

Way back in the '70's,in the hight of the cold war.I was in Halifax, courtesy of the USN and saw several destroyers and an aircraft carrier, all in mothballs . They apparently thought is was cheaper and efficent to allow the USA to protect them. I'm sure they expect that today.

[lormand]

"They're spending US$7.6 billion on defense? Where? On what?"

Diversity seminars, sensitity training, homosexual awareness questionaires, meals-on-wheels deployments...etc.

Pretty much the same as we have been doing during the Klinton era.

[Charles Martel]

Canada has a huge area, and three oceans worth of coastline. The tax burden of protecting all of that with a population of 30 million or so is huge, so whatever level of funding the military got it was never enough. Add the Liberals, who have been cutting the military ever since they were elected, and you have the makings of a dangerous situation. They haven't learned the lessons of history, or so it seems.

Canada relocated a number of Inuit to the high Arctic so that they could claim sovereignty of the Arctic and the waters surrounding the Arctic archipelago. How on earth do they intend to assert that sovereignty with their military atrophied so horribly?

If the Northwest Passage ever becomes fully navigable, Canada won't be able to patrol or secure a fraction of it.