One of Canada’s most liberal-left papers (and that’s saying a lot about how left they are), reports that on one of Canada’s recent and ongoing missions—which would be categorized as a “peacekeeping” mission—the service men and women had to engage in some “prodding and begging” for basic equipment.
That’s how liberals in Canada treat brave and noble men and women serving our country, putting their lives on the line as they try to answer the urgent call of humans around the world in times of crisis. New vote-buying universal social programs take a priority for liberals, in place of such taudry conservative values as national security and a strong military.
Toronto Star
FREDERICTON—Canadian troops sent to Haiti earlier this year on a peacekeeping mission were left “prodding and begging” for basic equipment, according to an internal defence department report obtained by Canadian Press.The report examines the deployment of about 500 Canadian troops as part of Operation Halo — a U.S.-led mission to restore calm after a three-week rebellion prompted then-Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to flee the troubled Caribbean country.
The soldiers and equipment were airlifted to Haiti from Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunswick.
The report, obtained under the federal Access to Information Act, identifies a shortage of operational equipment including ballistic plates, fragmentary vests, tan safety boots and even protective latex gloves.
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Defence analyst Martin Shadwick of York University in Toronto said he finds the report distressing.“We’re talking equipment which in most cases seems to be pretty straight forward, relatively low-technology, that should be available in adequate quantity, and with dispatch, readily accessible,” he said.
“If we’re having difficulty quickly equipping troops going overseas, and in relatively small numbers, that suggests that some corrective action is immediately required.”
…and that’s the low-tech, very most basic human needs stuff. I imagine they were too simply embarrassed to admit that they also weren’t supplied with soap and toilet paper. Had military equipment been needed—ships, fighter jets, helicopters, submarines, troop carriers to get them there in the first place—well then Canada’s military might just as well have stayed home and out of the way of those nations who are properly equipped.
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