The nordic countries are saying to Canada that our defense requires the whole population to be part of the country’s resilience to economic, natural and military disasters.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nordic-ambassadors-visit-yellowknife-arctic-tension-9.7053131

Canada pretends to have heard the message with several hundred thousand volunteer force.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/the-military-plans-for-a-volunteer-force-to-defend-canada/

Yet for decades they have been attacking the peaceful and largely patriotic small arms industry that had a fledgling domestic manufacturing capacity. One hopes we learn the lesson here really fucking quickly.

I mean the process was poorly initiated, and its based on a shaky foundation, and the process itself its a disaster too

It’s a bad attempt at a performative idea.

They should scrap it.