Defense Watch Watch: the Scandal without any Suprises
Since January 2021, the Canadian Forces (CF) has been lost in a scandal supercell, which the leadership didn't see coming, but everybody else in the CF and outside of it did. The other thing I can observe: so the Defense Minister is Harjit Sajjan. He was a police detective in Vancouver, and also rose to the rank of Lt. Col. in the Canadian Army. On the one hand, you can see that somebody with lots of experience in the military is the sort of person you want in the role, IE because they should know their stuff. There's a distinct drawback, now obvious: if you come up in these circles, you might have the same blind spots. Things start with the recently retired General Vance. Remember when the smack talk was all about "why did you take so long to say 'actually, maybe CF personnel shouldn't belong to right wing terror groups'?" Gen. Vance investigated for sexual impropriety Naturally: quote: Vance was also the driving force behind Operation Ho...