Zur Verteidigung Kanadas: Wiederherstellung einer echten Miliz
Zur Verteidigung Kanadas: Wiederherstellung einer echten Miliz
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The LPC has too much political and rhetorical capital put into maintaining the wedge issue to every backtrack on their stance on gun owners being the primary drivers of gun violence in Canada.
There is no role to be filled by a militia that the reserves don’t already fill. They reserves are just the modern naming of what was the militia.
The article seems to miss a key point dynamic: interest in firearms =/= interest in military life. It’s a really stupid conflation. Hunting and firearms ownership is a much more pronounced overlap. You won’t find many firearms owners jumping at the bit for the prospect of handling a firearm especially when the same society hypothetically demanding that they do so is actively criminalizing them. They effectively alienated any political goodwill from PAL holders.
To boot, there’s a logistical problem with any notion of a civilian defence force. From where are we arming them? The gun buyback won’t yield battle ready weapons, and if you don’t believe me, believe the fact that Ukraine was disinterested in what our buyback would yield once they realized what it was about. We are rolling some updated small arms for the CAF currently but that’s happening slowly. From where are we equipping 300000 new part time soldiers?
In Canada’s defence: establish a true reserve army.
The Reserves need to double in size.
And a militia is fundamentally civilian, we need a 100k person militia on top of 60k reserve (2x) and 60k active. (An example of the scale of the institution building needed) Active force vs Reserve force are both professional „close in and kill“. Militia or Civil Defence is not.
More people work for Loblaws then we have in active primary force defence of the Federation.
Edit: an attempt to be more on topic: any arms impassioned citizen willing to take an oath to the sovereignity of Canada- should just be funneled into the reserves. What we need is a civilian swiss army knife institution and I would argue that’s actually a Militia or Civil Defence. (One benefit is Militia is bilingual and can assume more roles being an ancient word rooted in volunteer service to the specific locality: fundamentally civilian in nature) Roles: disaster response, auxillary constables, a pipeline into skills development *& a pipeline for „close in with and destroy the enemy“* war fighting of the Active and Reserve CAF. Your Militia or Civil Defence Hall needs to be less Drill Hall (Active & Reserve Standing Army) and more „post national“ civil *national service* Union Hall. Militia is a group of volunteers raised *locally* for the good of the *local* community. It’s a 2000 year old word. „Militia“ = „civil service corp“ not just guys shooting Fenians
Here is an idea. Hand over building reserve forces and ordering weaponery to the provinces. Ottawa can’t do it, lets see if the provinces can.