Canadians were aghast at the revelations unearthed by the Somalia Commission more than 25 years ago. The inquiry exposed a culture of rampant racism in the ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces and led to calls for reform. Fast forward a quarter century, and guess what? Last week the Toronto Star treated us to this headline; Canadian Armed Forces moves to crack down on racism and extremism in its ranks.
That racism nut is apparently a tough one for the Forces to crack... but that fact doesn't seem to temper the wave of adulation greeting the news that we've got a Major-General supervising our national pandemic vaccine roll-out. According to CTV, the military already has dozens of officers embedded with the Canada Public Health Agency.
Same deal here in Ontario, where Premier Doug has tapped retired General Rick Hillier to oversee vaccine distribution. Hillier was the guy who stupidly promised to run the Taliban "murderers and scumbags" out of Afghanistan in short order. That was in 2005. By 2008 Hillier had retired from the Forces to pursue opportunities in the private sector, and today the murderers and scumbags are negotiating with the US government about their (the US, not the murderers and scumbags) final surrender, or, if you will, "victory." Hillier will trouser a cool $20 thou/month for his vaccine efforts.
Our future is in the most trusted hands our politicians can find. I for one am not impressed.
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