Gen. Jonathan Vance made the comments in one of his final interviews as Canada's chief of the defence staff before turning command of the military over to Vice-Admiral Art McDonald on Thursday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said one of McDonald's top priorities in the job will be rooting extremism and systemic racism from the ranks of the military, which has been battered by revelations of some members' links to right-wing groups. Vance says he realized the military had a problem in July 2017, when several Royal Canadian Navy sailors who were members of the right-wing Proud Boys group were caught on video interrupting a Mi'kmaq ceremony in Halifax.
Vance says the incident coincided with a growing realization that xenophobia was on the rise and revealed gaps in how the Armed Forces deals with hate and racism. While Vance says progress has been made in clamping down on such behaviour, he acknowledges more work will continue to be needed to ensure the Armed Forces reflects the values that Canadians expect.
The proud boys are a bunch of jurk offs, a terrorist group, really? And the Native Syndicate? Hells Angels and Red Scorpions are ? Not? The proud boys are not dealing drugs and shooting people in the streets. These guys were clowns so were the Micmac total clowns.
I wonder. In the search to expose and root out extremist groups, does that include “left leaning” groups as well. Oh, sorry, that would be liberals wouldn’t it? And as we all know Liberals are perfect.
No one knew him before so why the hell would we care what he has to say about ANYTHING?! Especially virtue-signaling?
“While Vance says progress has been made in clamping down on such behaviour, he acknowledges more work will continue to be needed to ensure the Armed Forces reflects the values that Canadians expect.” Yeah, and not white supremacist xenophobia !! Eh !!
Yesterday’s Children of the Gay Purge, are Today’s LGBTQ Seniors. Tomorrow’s Gay Genocide Generation. In a country where we were born criminals. Acknowledge the wrong. Compensation now for ALL LGBTQ seniors!
I think immigrants moving here and screaming 'RaCiSm' at everything and anything they deem negative towards them, in their opinion, is far more of a danger, then the population that built this country into what it is today. BTW, how are those crime stats doing?
It is very real, sad to say in the greatest country in the world. My own best friend for 40 years exhibited these tendencies and I dropped him like a bad habit. Don't let others get away with it, stand up for what is right.
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