{"id":476,"date":"2015-11-09T22:08:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T22:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2016-02-29T19:30:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T19:30:29","slug":"what-canadians-want-from-their-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2015\/11\/09\/what-canadians-want-from-their-government\/","title":{"rendered":"What Canadians want from their Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, the new PM’s office thinks it’s:
\n – Recalls & Safety Alerts
\n – Weather
\n – Find A Job
\n – Write to the Troops
\n\"Home<\/a><\/p>\n

Which is actually probably not a bad top four, given what people care about and the time of year.<\/p>\n

Digging a little deeper, I had no idea that there were Canadian soldiers involved in so many overseas missions:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.forces.gc.ca\/en\/write-to-the-troops\/mailing-instructions.page<\/p>\n

OP CALUMET- Sinai, Egypte
\nOP CROCODILE – Democratic Republic of the Congo
\nOP FOUNDATION or IMPACT – Qatar
\nOP FOUNDATION (Bahrain)
\nOP FOUNDATION – Jordan
\nOP HAMLET – Port-au-Prince, Ha\u00efti
\nOP JADE – Middle East
\nOP KOBOLD – Pristina, Kosovo
\nOP PROTEUS – Jerusalem
\nOP SATURN and SOPRANO – Sudan
\nOP SNOWGOOSE – Cyprus
\nOP IMPACT – Kuwait
\nOP IMPACT – Baghdad, Iraq
\nOperational Support (OS) Detachment – Kuwait
\nCFS Alert – Alert, Nunavut, Canada
\nCanadian Ships
\nOP ADDENDA – Kabul, Afghanistan
\nOP REASSURANCE – Land Component
\nOP SIRONA (Sierra Leone)
\nOP UNIFIER (Ukraine)<\/p>\n

It also seems to me that Justin Trudeau emphasizes his support and mention of Canadian Soldiers, perhaps to defray the (generally incorrect) notion that Conservative governments are better for the military. But perhaps this is just me being oversensitive.<\/p>\n

”
\n“It’s the responsibility of government not to put soldiers into harm’s way except as a last resort, when it’s absolutely necessary to do so,” he said. “When we do send them into harm’s way we have to ensure that we’ve done everything in our power to find other methods to reach our objectives.”
\n”
\nhttp:\/\/www.nationalobserver.com\/2015\/11\/04\/opinion\/you-have-no-idea-how-badass-trudeaus-defence-minister-really<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pm.gc.ca\/eng<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, the new PM’s office thinks it’s: – Recalls & Safety Alerts – Weather – Find A Job – Write to the Troops Which is actually probably not a bad top four, given what people care about and the time of year. Digging a little deeper, I had no idea that there were Canadian soldiers … Continue reading What Canadians want from their Government<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}