I often forget how bad my country folk have it in some places. I'm going to doxx myself a bit here.

I'm a service member in Canada. In my first 5 years of service I received 20 payed annual leave days. After 5 years of service I received 25. At a later date I will receive thirty.

I get every single federal holiday as well as provincial holiday for the province I'm posted to.

At any given time I can request up to 2 days of sick leave/mental health days without a doctor's note. After that I can be given any number of days off signed by a doctor.

If I have a death in the immediate family I can receive 7 days or more of grievance and compassionate leave authorised by a chaplain or my commanding officer.

Further to this, I get 100% dental coverage,my family gets 85%. I get $80k to go to university, $10k for professional development or college courses as well as a whole plethora of other benefits like free eye exams and subsidised glasses.

I want this for all of my countrymen. My (often conservative) countrymen do not want this for themselves. Why? The fact I get all this shows that the Canadian Government is willing to give these benefits to any Canadian. But they don't. Why?

I get these benefits because I was too young and dumb to do anything with my life but join the army?

Good point. I’m in private industry as well but it is federally regulated.

And Ontarians haven't learned their lesson over the last 8 years of Dough boy Ford at the helm. He will likely be re-elected and continue to damage the province. The Canadian Conservatives are a fucking disgrace and I wish more people would recognize how shitty they actually are.

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