The current state of the Canadian Forces
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When he's in uniform. That's the whole point of the uniform - to label you an agent of the Canadian government. Every soldier knows this. It's not a grey area.
You're also acting as a representative of the government if/when you're posting with an official government social media account.
No because in a court martial you could successfully argue that the profile pic is a non political statement, and the political comment you made with you account is a separate statement made out of uniform. That's why people don't get in shit for doing that.
What isn't debatable is if you stood there in uniform and made a public political statement to the cameras. Captioning a pic of you in uniform with a political statement would be the online equivalent of that.
You don't have to be a lawyer to understand the distinction between making statements as a representative of the CAF, and making them as a private citizen.
I bet a lawyer could also successfully argue it isn't separate, but since neither of us are lawyers we pull out our ASSumptions.