I'm not wearing a shitty plastic flower to honour people who peaked in high school gym class and decided to make it a career path because they heard they could buy a camaro with their signing bonus

Solid Drama-tier Retardation

" Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War "

I dont think you're a canadian and you're wrong. The ceremonies are in memory of WW1 troops.

venerating a bullshit political war

World war 1? Because of the immense loss of life.

We would be much better served focusing on peace

That is the idea of our modern military

lowing the ghosts of men who died, at best, thirty years ago.

You're just disrespectful, not everyone is.

Bull. Shit. How much peace have we brought to the middle east? At what civilian cost of life?

Humanitarian assistance: helping those most affected: In 2019, Canada announced the two-year renewal of the Middle East Strategy. We have committed up to $1.4 billion over five years (2016-2021) to provide gender-responsive humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable conflict-affected populations in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan.

Development assistance: building resilience

Canada’s development assistance is providing longer-term support to build the capacity of governments, communities, and households in Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon. In Syria, our programming targets community-level projects focusing on women’s empowerment. These efforts across the region are helping communities withstand and recover from the shocks and stresses caused by the crises.

Empowering women and girls and advancing gender equality

Women and girls in the Middle East are generally more disadvantaged compared to those in other middle-income countries. Conflicts in Iraq and Syria have diminished the meaningful participation of women in all spheres and have intensified gender-based violence. Empowering women and girls and advancing gender equality is the core of our development assistance. This is instrumental to achieving more inclusive institutions and longer-term stability.

Diplomatic engagement

Canadian diplomats at our bilateral and multilateral missions work with partners and allies to achieve sustainable solutions to the ongoing crises in Iraq and Syria, and their impact on the region, particularly in Jordan and Lebanon. They advocate for human rights as well as economic, social, and political reforms. They also promote Canadian values such as gender equality and pluralism, and reinforce a rules-based international order.

Diplomats assess and track the evolving situation in the region to ensure an appropriate Canadian response and that our actions are coordinated with a wide range of partners.

And so on - https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/mena-moan/strategy-strategie.aspx?lang=eng

Canada's role in the development of peacekeeping during the 20th century led to the establishment of Canada as a prominent world power. Canada's commitment to multilateralism has been closely related to peacekeeping efforts. Canadian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lester B. Pearson considered to be the father of modern United Nations Peacekeeping.[1][2] Prior to Canada's role in the Suez Canal Crisis, Canada was viewed by many as insignificant in issues of the world's traditional powers. Canada's successful role in the conflict gave Canada credibility and established it as a nation fighting for the common good of all the world's nations and not just their allies.[3] Since 1995, however, Canadian direct participation in United Nations peacekeeping efforts has greatly declined.[4] That number decreased largely because Canada began to direct its participation to UN-sanctioned military operations through NATO, rather than through the UN.[5] In July 2006, for instance, Canada ranked 51st on the list of UN peacekeepers, contributing 130 peacekeepers out of a total UN deployment of over 70,000;[6] whereas in November 1990 Canada had 1,002 troops out of a total UN deployment of 10,304.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_peacekeeping_missions

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Not everything and everyone is deserving of respect.

I can understand disliking the military, but not everyone feels like you do towards WW1 and WW2 vets. Actually the average canadian respects those people.

Do you think an organization could do that and maybe, say, not be a fucking army

They still fight terrorism. You're against a standing army, I get it. Your feelings shouldn't effect our national security. Back then, you'd be called a bleeding heart.

Do you honestly think our army could defend us against a single country that has the means to invade?

Yes.

We exist solely because we neighbour the US, militarily speaking.

And we've fought them before. Good thing we are allies now.

Maybe just bring them all home and stop interfering in the world.

They still fight terrorism. You're against a standing army, I get it. Your feelings shouldn't effect our national security.

So you're delusional then.

We have a modern army, a natural ocean barrier, and the strongest army on the planet to the south as our ally. Whos going to invade us anytime soon?

If Russia or China wanted to take us, they would do it in less than a week,

Canada is large and we would see a lot of guerrilla resistance. Our ally with America IS part of our military strength. This discussion is retarded

If you think your average Canadian citizen (who has never touched a gun) is going to grab an sks and go inna woods to hunt ruskies, you're sadly mistaken

Not everyone is a pansi ready to submit to an invading chinese army.

Our military strength can never be defined as an alliance with another military. Thats not our strength, that's a treaty of convenience.

Yes it can.

America doesn't love us. We aren't "bros". We are neighbours, and we exist by their pleasure, and would die by it as well.

We are neighbours with common goals. Like I said, this conversation is pointless and retarded

The shock of immigrants not placing the same importance on literally every single cultural practice that you personally hold,

remembrance day isn't every single cultural practice bro

The shock

Its not a shock, its the expected result of a fragmented country with no identity

Its all racism all the time. It just is physical neural conditionaing of human behaviour to differentiate between a percieved/visible other