That is where you as a soldier cross the line from good guy who's defending his country and serving his people to bad guy who's targeting his own people in service to some power-mad general who's obviously lost all perspective and has no ethical bearing. No soldier should ever obey orders like these.

Whoever's responsible for cooking this up should be thrown in prison and lose their pension. Those who obeyed his orders should be severely punished as well. This is quite possibly the worst thing the Canadian Forces has ever done.

All this effort to find racists and sexists, yet the CAF does nothing to detect and weed out clinical psychopaths. That needs to change. A good place to start would be to take anyone who walks into a recruiting centre and says "I want to be an officer" and show them the door, with extreme prejudice. Here's a person with zero training, zero experience, zero knowledge of what the job even entials telling you he deserves to be in change of everyone else - people who've been in for years, decades even. It takes a psychopath to think that highly of oneself. That should be an automatic disqualifier. But it's not, which is how we end up with an officer corps comprised completely of people like Russel Williams, or the kinds of people who dream up ideas like running psyops on Canadians just for the hell of it. These people walk into the recruiting office and announce that they're psychopaths, and the CAF's response is to hand them a commission when they should be using the guy's head to open the door as they throw him out onto the street.

I've heard of officers using their commands as a personal plaything who's purpose is nothing more than to advance that officer's career. That's normal. But using the Canadian public? Innocent, unsuspecting/unconsenting civilians? That's a whole new level of depravity and it can't go unpunished.