Dominion Society of Canada - May 07, 2026


Military culture.


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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

175.65404

Word count

329

Sentence count

12


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00:00:00.000 We have Mark Carney out there talking about how Canada has increased our enrollment in recruitment for the Canadian Armed Forces.
00:00:08.360 And I think there is a lot, again, there is some things to like here about Mark Carney.
00:00:12.520 He has been expanding the military, which is absolutely crucial.
00:00:17.420 We need to be expanding our military.
00:00:19.380 This is just a crucial part of having a sovereign nation, being able to defend your territory, being able to exert power on the global stage when necessary.
00:00:28.440 we need to have a functional military and as well in Canada in particular for generations we had a
00:00:34.460 very proud military culture upper Canada Ontario was basically a military state in its founding
00:00:40.140 right it was founded by United Empire loyalists who were paranoid that their territory was going
00:00:44.500 to be taken by the Americans at any time so they established basically a military state in Ontario
00:00:50.820 where where land was given to soldiers and the the land was settled by the militia by this
00:00:56.200 decentralized military. This military culture was baked into Canadian society. And we saw that
00:01:00.820 echo through the war of 1812. We saw that echo through both world wars where Canada had a stand
00:01:05.900 out military. Some of the most vicious soldiers, everyone's heard that half the Geneva Conventions
00:01:12.560 based off of things that the Canadian military did. We were feared the world around. It wasn't
00:01:19.360 until Pierre Trudeau who started to break down our military who merged the different wings of
00:01:26.200 the military into a single armed forces to erode each of their unique military cultures and
00:01:31.740 ultimately turn us into this very modernist outlook of this peacekeeping country right but
00:01:36.640 that was very much this is all part of this cultural revolution of Pierre Trudeau who
00:01:41.180 undermined Canada's unique identity that our military culture was core to Canada's identity
00:01:46.620 And now just to see the way the military has been transformed into is so frustrating and disappointing.