Guest Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Evidently our new Defense Minister has the background to judge what to do with our armed forces. I hope the first decision he makes will be on the fate of the new fighter aircraft and replacements for the Snowbirds aging CT-114/CL-41 Tutor. defence Minister Harjit Sajjan released from military — so he doesn’t have to take orders from generals Today, November 10, 2015, 2 hours ago | David Pugliese, Postmedia NewsCanada’s new minister of National Defence has now been released from the Canadian Forces.Last week the Ottawa Citizen reported that Vancouver South MP Harjit Sajjan, a lieutenant colonel in the army reserves, was trying to get his release from the Canadian Forces. He was named the country’s new defence minister on Nov. 4 by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Sajjan’s status as a serving member of the military put him in a unique situation in that theoretically he would be required to take orders from generals who are supposed to be answering to him.“The Minister of National Defence’s release from the Canadian Armed Forces is currently being processed in order to ensure that he receives the appropriate benefits based his long and honorable service in the CAF,” Department of National Defence spokesman Daniel Le Bouthillier said last week. “The MND requested his release on October 21, 2015 and the process is expected to be resolved this week.”Le Bouthillier confirmed to the Citizen Monday night that Sajjan had been released from the military.“We can confirm that Minister Sajjan’s release was signed on Sunday, November 8th, and that he is no longer a Reservist in the Canadian Armed Forces,” Le Bouthillier noted. “The institution is grateful for his service to Canada and we look forward to working with him.”The Vancouver South Liberal MP will be dealing with a senior military leadership led by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance, who previously was the commander who requested his specialized skills on counter-insurgency and tribal politics be used in Afghanistan. RelatedDefence minister says he warned against 2006 Afghan mission that left four Canadians dead in Taliban ambush In 2009, at Vance’s request, Sajjan was sent to Afghanistan as a special advisor to the Canadian mission in Kandahar.Sajjan is a 44-year-old combat veteran who served in Bosnia and in Afghanistan on three separate deployments.In an interview before he was elected Sajjan told Canadian Military Family Magazine that he was still looking into the legalities behind running for office as a reservist. He had offered his resignation but was asked to stay on since his skillset was valuable to the Canadian Forces, the magazine noted.“If we all of a sudden send soldiers in harm’s way and my skills are absolutely needed for the mission, I’d be happy to take a leave of absence from being a member of parliament and share the risk with the other members of CAF,” Sajjan told the magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I don't recall Mr. Trudeau ever saying that the mission would end on day one of his tenure as P.M. In fact, it may just be that he has taken the novel approach of actually listening to his military leaders who (for all we know) may be recommending continuation of some aspects of their mission prior to pulling back. IOW, the ink is hardly dry on the paperwork and some seem to expect that everything changes on day one. Even the great Stephen Harper couldn't achieve that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagger Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 After the detention of the Canadian transports by the Kurds, it should be plain that no one in the region - even your supposed allies - trusts anyone. We bomb ISIS. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Russian bomb ISIS. Are we supporting Assad, the Butcher of Syria? Or Hezbollah? Or Iran? And what's with the Russians? We oppose them in Ukraine, but it's cool they are fighting ISIS with us? Syria is a messy, cock-eyed situation, and we should keep the hell away from it. As for Iraq, like I said, the Sunnis are the enemy, Iran and the Shiites are our allies but not our friends and don't trust us, the Kurds accuse Canada and the West of creating ISIS to frustrate their efforts to create an independent Kurdish country our of parts of Turkey, Syria and Iraq, and the Turks are apparently playing all sides, even though they are our NATO allies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boney Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 An old saying...."The enemy of my enemy, is my friend."Now all we have to figure out is who's the enemy or who's our friend.Hmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEFCON Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Boney, I don’t know that there's really anything left to figure out here? Religion is the obvious enemy of peace. In the present example, it’s the Muslim doctrines that are causing all the global unrest; Sunni hates Shia, but both hate the Jews as directed by the Koran, and everyone one else is an infidel in need of a sharp blade. It sounds like a whole lot of hate emanates from within the religion of peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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