The military plans for a volunteer force to defend Canada (www.ctvnews.ca)

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I will be signing up if they offer that. New skills are always good. Best case we never have to use them but worst case we are a bit more prepared.

“Those who join the civil defence corps would face less restrictive age limits and meet lower physical and fitness requirements. Their training would be limited to five days per year to ensure accessibility.

In that short period, volunteers would learn skills such as shooting, moving, communicating, driving a truck and flying a drone, according to the mobilization plan. Canada’s civilian force would get medical coverage during training, but not pensionable benefits.”

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[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

You too can help defend our capitalist country where housing is unaffordable to most people and where natural resources are exploited to profit multinational corporations.

It's your choice. It's either defending neoliberalism by helping to kill other poor people also convinced they are defending their country by invading another, or their fascism.

Meanwhile the rich will watch the poor fight and kill each others with weapons that they sold them.

I seriously think individuals should be prepared for general catastrophic events, but I'm personally not willing to "defend" this land that is not mine in the first place.

Being a subject of capitalistic country A instead of capitalistic country Z is not worth helping an organization that has the goal of killing other humans. Even if it's just helping with driving a truck, or with the tech, it's indirectly assisting those that will do the killing.