Reserve training disciplines the mind and character, which could be transferred to civil servants day jobs as it is to the jobs of current reservists who work at private jobs.

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The federal Liberals want to increase the size of Canada’s military reserves by 10-fold to nearly 300,000 from just under 30,000. And one of the Department of National Defence’s (DND) primary methods for achieving that goal is to encourage more enlistment into the part-time Armed Forces by federal and provincial civil servants.

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Sleep safe, Canada, the 77th King’s Own Passport Office Rifles are on guard tonight! Tomorrow it will be the 4th Elections Canada Highlanders. And the day after that the 137th Loyal Health Canada Fusiliers.

All mocking aside, there is nothing inappropriate in encouraging civil servants to add reserve duty on top of their regular jobs in the bureaucracy.

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