No enthusiam in military for the North
Via Panglossian Notes, this story from the Globe and Mail regarding a serious lack of planning and preparation in last year's "sovereignty exercise"
The Canadian Forces have come under fire in an internal report highly critical of military leaders' lack of interest in an Arctic sovereignty protection exercise last August.
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It says Canadian military leaders didn't place a high enough priority on the operation, and it singles out for criticism Canada Command, the military organization given the task of defending this country.
The report says Canada Command failed to issue a set of orders that had been planned to help disseminate instructions on Operation Nanook.
“[It's] a sad testament to the lack of interest in this operation and its associated training events displayed by the superior HQ that directed it to be conducted in the first place.”
As Panglossian Notes says it, perhaps if we told them that the they were headed to a desert thousands of miles away, they would put more effort into it. After all, that seems to be the kind of missions the folks at HQ are most interested in these days.
Other than that, this is just the latest in a long line of examples of the federal government talking big about northern sovereignty and other northern issues, but failing to really push for a follow-through.
