I've been hearing rumors that top brass are not listening to Trudeau. Any confirmation would be appreciated.
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Except pride parades are used by the parties in a partisan way, which makes it a partisan issue
https://globalnews.ca/news/5726434/trudeau-scheer-pride-parades/
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-conservatives-dont-show-up-for-pride-and-thats-a-problem/
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-sad-politicization-of-pride/
And that's without even considering all the left-wing shit that's rolled into the pride movement (BDS, anti-police sentiment, BLM etc etc). I mean surely you noticed they stopped calling themselves "Gay Pride" years ago, and are now going by just "Pride", yes? That's because it's a big tent, general left-wing omnibus movement now, and therefore out of bounds for a military that has a duty to remain apolitical.
All that aside, it wouldn't matter if the movement was something as universally supported as "The Cancer Sucks Parade". If the political parties turned it into a partisan issue, it would be the military's duty to stay out of it.
And the "pride" movement isn't anywhere near as universally supported as you're making it out to be be. The pride movement is highly contentious in Canada.
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The Canadian Armed Forces serve both the red column and the blue column because guess what: Canada is a pluralistic society, and that means not having the military turned against you by the ruling power when you fall into the "dissenter" column. By marching in pride parades, the CAF is openly declaring "We stand against the 30% and for the 70%", thereby abandoning their duty to serve all Canadians, regardless of their politics. That is completely outside their purview of the armed forces. They are supposed to stay out of partisan politics, not act as a Waffen SS or Republican Guard for one of the parties and against the others. They're the Canadian Armed Forces, not the Liberal Party Armed Forces. And "Canadian" includes the 30% of the population who are Conservatives, whether you and Trudeau like it or not.
The media makes it a partisan issue, not the Canadian parties. O'Toole, Trudeau, Bernier, Singh, Ford and so on all participated in pride parades. Even here in the "Conservative" Prairies we have Conservative politicians going to pride breakfasts:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/ucp-leader-kenney-pride-breakfast-edmonton-1.4691455
Or visiting a Pride Festival:
https://regina.ctvnews.ca/right-thing-for-a-premier-to-do-saskatchewan-s-moe-reflects-on-pride-parade-1.4745002
The red and the blue column are on the same side when it comes to the LGBT stuff.
Oh fuck off. What the fuck do you take me for?
https://globalnews.ca/news/5726434/trudeau-scheer-pride-parades/
Yes because they feel they need to be seen supporting "pride", due to how politically vulnerable they are on that issue. That makes it a partisan issue, and and therefore forbidden territory for the military.
What is so hard to understand about the notion that the military needs to stay out of politics? Is it really that hard to understand the danger of the Canadian Armed Forces converting into the Liberal Party Armed Forces?
Here let's try turning the tables on this: What if Harper had ordered the Military to participate in anti-immigration protests in uniform? Would you be saying "No that's fine because most Canadians agree"? No, of course you wouldn't. You'd be screaming bloody murder. And you'd be right to. The role of the military is not to be used as a partisan militia by the ruling power. That military defends ALL Canadians, not just the ones you agree with.
Because neither the military nor the leaders of our political parties see it as "politics" that the military is allowed to march in pride parades.
I doubt that Harper or even Trudeau ordered the military march in pride parades. The military did it on their own since 2008, when they marched the first time in a pride parade under Harper. Unless you think that Harper ordered the military to participate to woe voters and thus make it a partisan issue for the Conservatives.
The military doesn't defend all Canadians. The military would even kill Canadians when they were ordered to.
Society changes and when the vast majority of Canadians are supportive of the LGBT agenda, then the people in the military will reflect it. What a military member can represent in public or not is laid out in the Queen's regulations and orders. And since participating in uniform in pride parades is not "reflecting or is likely to reflect discredit upon the Canadian Forces", they have the right to participate in it. Participating in an anti-immigration protest in uniform would bring discredit to the Canadian Forces, because not only our society would be against it but also every single political party in Canada.
Do you think I'm stupid? Do you think you can just say blatantly retarded nonsense like "our parties don't see the gay pride movement as political" with a straight face and get away with it? It couldn't be more political if they tried.
If it weren't political it wouldn't be flooded with partisan branding and inter-party bickering. You know why you don't see that shit on Remembrance day? Because Remembrance day, unlike Pride, is apolitical.
You fucking people. You always resort to the same "But pride isn't political!" defense when called out on this. The 'Pride' movement is highly politically contentious, and the parties themselves treat it as a partisan issue. That MAKES it political. There's absolutely nothing you can say to make that less true.
Just admit that you've run out of arguments and concede the point already. Jesus.