kengs333

I disagree. I think that the problem stems from a decline in European influence in this region allowing for nationalist, ethnic, and Communist influences to take over.

You mean feed over-consuming North Americans. The Amish who farm largely as they did in the 19th century often produce higher yields per acre than for agribusinesses. Well, no, loss of farm land due to changing climate and adoption of modern farming techniques is a key factor. Interestingly, attempts are being made to reacquaint third world farmers with older farming techniques that stress soil conservation, farming techniques that allowed civilizations to flourish for millenia.

No, I think that objectively speaking, working for a law firm would be more adventageous.

Actually I believe this would be better than a brief overview: http://www.amazon.com/12th-SS-Division-Sta...8286&sr=8-8 Also Rupert Butler's "SS Hitler Jugend".

Working in a law office is preferrable for many reasons, not just for the remuneration.

Of course you fail to realize the year or so of trying to have reasoned discussions with him, which invariably when he has been out-debated he turns into mudslinging matches.

On the hypocracy front, a non-native was arrested for removing a Six Nations flag: http://thespec.com/News/Local/article/440661 So the court system has time for this kind of stuff, but can't deal with actual lawbreaking members of Six Nations? Ridiculous.

which is why no one can stand Six Nations anymore. Nazis used to use this term for Jews. Wonder where you picked it up?

Well, then, I suggest that you start rereading.

Actually, many of the old men would have served during the First World War. Units such as the 12th Waffen SS division, which was comprised of 15 to 17 year olds, was one of the hardest fighting units that served in Western Europe. Any Canadian who fought against them will attest to that, I believe.

Well, if they had two years of train, as you claim, then it's curious that they would have had difficulty in reloading sten guns... Service and training are two totally different things. Parading, marching, lobbing rocks and firing rifles a few times a year, performing guard duty in Canada, etc. doesn't make one a seasoned, competent combat soldier. Spare me the "troll" nonsense... you're starting to sound like jenny...

The point is that he doesn't even know that the figures come from a book entitled Broken Promises by J. L. Granatstein and J. M. Hitsman, nor does he know the context that they were used in the book. So how do we get from Canadian conscripts being poorly trained and equipped during the European campaign to "Allied training standards" prior to D-Day? The Allied preparation for the invasion and the hasty dispatch of Canadian replacements following the invasion are two different things. Read any (not "a") book. I invite you to read any book dealing with Canadian involvement in the European campaign. Do you really need someone helping you in this respect?

About 13,000 MNRA men were sent overseas. Like all of the others sent over, they were poorly equipped and trained. Read any account of the Canadians in the European campaign and this will be discussed.

No, it has nothing to do with funding, simply the fact that nobody with any amount of intelligence would want to enter the military.

In other words, you can't and won't admit it. The CF changed the manner in which they acquire recuits by not requiring them to be physically fit; now the CF helps these unfit recuits get into shape--if they can--but no mention is made of how many are later discarded. It's just a way of fudging the numbers to make things look less bleak than they really are.

Good boy. Now discuss how the recruiting process has changed from just a few years ago, and how many of these "enrollees" are weeded out and why. Whatever the case, the Canadian military is having difficulty maintaining a paltry 2,500 man force in Afghanistan, and will all the way to 2011 (or beyond).

Sorry, but conscripts would have arrived directly from Canada well after D-Day and were not involved in training for D-Day. Read any book about Canadian involvement in the European campaign, and there will be at mention of the poor training of the replacement soldiers.

Apparently not.

An unsourced figure from Wikipedia--I'm so convinced now...!!!!

How so? What do you know about Canada's role in the European campaign? Nothing, no doubt.

i) Britain wasn't "another country" at the time... ii) "people's" in what respect? Inuit? Or "Canadians"?

Yeah, and the conscripts that they sent over to Europe were poorly trained and equipped, but I guess that's beside the point...

Do you have any supporting evidence for this?

Movies produced by Hollywood and gang violence in American cities don't originate in the USA?!?!?

Oh, that's right, we should just bite our tongues until it becomes overwhelmingly obviously, just like it has always been done in the past. We don't want to be jumping the gun here on the whole dictator thing, heaven forbid we try to do something about it while we still can.