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I will be signing up if they offer that. New skills are always good. Best case we never have to use them but worst case we are a bit more prepared.

“Those who join the civil defence corps would face less restrictive age limits and meet lower physical and fitness requirements. Their training would be limited to five days per year to ensure accessibility. 

In that short period, volunteers would learn skills such as shooting, moving, communicating, driving a truck and flying a drone, according to the mobilization plan. Canada’s civilian force would get medical coverage during training, but not pensionable benefits.”

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[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Service guarantees citizenship!

Would you like to know more?

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I might be pessimistic, but I bet a lot of the alt-right scum is going to see this as another means to get training for guns and other things, like they're already doing with the army.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Training isn’t an issue. Legal gun ownership isn’t the problem either.

[–] slykethephoxenix@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Me too. Already do drone flying and going for my ham license, but doing volunteer work and being trained for this for free sounds awesome.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I want nothing to do with the army before they become a canadian defense only force anf not one assisting illegal wars like it did in Afghanistan, iran, libya etc directly and indirectly

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

This feels like walking down the national focus tree as the world tension meter in HOI4 is ratcheting up.