1 billion $ spending cuts proposed for Canadian army

[crazy canuck]

Marti, did you just hack Viking's account?

Eh?

Your diagram was so nonsensical I thought I would give you the benefit of the doubt.

[Viking]

Marti, did you just hack Viking's account?

Eh?

Your diagram was so nonsensical I thought I would give you the benefit of the doubt.

If you can't tell me what is wrong with it your comment is of no consequence to me. If you don't understand it I can try to restate or rephrase my point.

[crazy canuck]

Marti, did you just hack Viking's account?

Eh?

Your diagram was so nonsensical I thought I would give you the benefit of the doubt.

If you can't tell me what is wrong with it your comment is of no consequence to me. If you don't understand it I can try to restate or rephrase my point.

Let me answer your question with another question.  Do you really think there was such a thing as a Canadian army during the same time period as "Oliver's Army".  Do you also think that humans and dinasours lived at the same time?

[Viking]

Let me answer your question with another question.  Do you really think there was such a thing as a Canadian army during the same time period as "Oliver's Army".  Do you also think that humans and dinasours lived at the same time?

I'm still confused how you concluded from my diagram that I argue that Oliver's Army is contemporaneous with either the Canadian or British Army.

The Act of Union occurring first in 1707, Canada being conquered in 1763 and Oliver Cromwell dying in 1658.

Both the British Army and Canadian Army decend from a common ancestor, The Parliamentary army.

I say this with the best of intentions, but you seem either to be mendacious, monumentally stupid or willfully ignorant.

[crazy canuck]

Canada was conquered?

I think you have been reading too many of Grallon's posts lately.

[Viking]

Canada was conquered?

I think you have been reading too many of Grallon's posts lately.

Apparently he died for nothing.....

[Oexmelin]

Canada was conquered?

Erh... Yes?

[Grey Fox]

Canada was conquered?

Erh... Yes?

You gotta forgive him, it's not covered at the Civ Museum in Gatineau so I figure Anglos don't consider it a Conquest.

[Viking]

I repeat; Mendacious, Monumentally Ignorant or Willfully Stupid.

[Neil]

Canada was conquered?

Erh... Yes?

Taking it from the savages doesn't count.

[Neil]

I can assure you that the Canadian Army has never killed a monarch.

Here's a diagram for you.

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                           Oliver's Army
                                |
                                |
         -------------------------------------------------------
         |                                                     |
     Brit Army                                            Canuck Army       




Diagram fail.  The ancestry of the Canadian Army is much more closely tied to the militias than the British Army, although it was certainly influenced by the British Army.  Nevertheless, it was still the Militia until WWII.

[Viking]

Diagram fail.  The ancestry of the Canadian Army is much more closely tied to the militias than the British Army, although it was certainly influenced by the British Army.  Nevertheless, it was still the Militia until WWII.

I'd argue that the Canadian Militia has the same relationship to the Army as the British Territorial Army does. Canadian Regiments may have drawn manpower from Militia Units, but the Regiments themselves were British and Commonwealth Regiments formed, operated and maintained as if they were integral to the British Army. Basically British Army units with Canadian manpower. To the army itself the only differentiation between a Yorkshire Regiment and a Manitoba one would be the annoying fact that the Canadian Government itself was somewhat tangential to the chain of command and thus the political consequences of any action involving it would be different that the political consequences of doing the same thing to the Yorkshire one.

The Canadian Army is created during WWI from units relying on canadian manpower in British Service, who, as a consequence of high casualties are granted their own army and army group as recompence.

But, to quote Wikipedia...

The Canadian Army evolved from the various British garrison forces on the North American continent in the 19th century.

I'm pretty sure something like that wouldn't survive if it weren't true, since if untrue it would massively insult Canadian Army sensibilities.

[Razgovory]

Canada was conquered?

Erh... Yes?

You gotta forgive him, it's not covered at the Civ Museum in Gatineau so I figure Anglos don't consider it a Conquest.

That's okay, the Francophones probably don't consider their settlement of Quebec a Conquest either.  But the First Nations probably do.

[Grey Fox]

Canada was conquered?

Erh... Yes?

You gotta forgive him, it's not covered at the Civ Museum in Gatineau so I figure Anglos don't consider it a Conquest.

That's okay, the Francophones probably don't consider their settlement of Quebec a Conquest either.  But the First Nations probably do.

Fuck the First Nations.

[Razgovory]

Fuck the First Nations.

Oh, I think that's already happened.