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CBC: The Canadian military is planning to put together a force of “100,000 reserve soldiers and an additional 300,000 citizen soldiers in a supplementary reserve, should the need arise”. This makes sense to me. There are so many threats to our country from climate change to our neighbours doing something unthinkable.
Organizing and training citizens allows communities to help themselves and each other when emergencies arise. Far too many of us just expect the government will swoop in and save us in a crisis. We’re not a bunch of helpless victims, or we shouldn’t be. This is Canada for goodness sake. We need to get back to knowing we can take care of ourselves.
When I was a kid we lived a long drive from grocery stores or a hospital. Our freezer and cupboards were always stocked. We had a garden and a pantry full of preserves. We had a wood stove and lanterns.
When the power went out we knew it probably going to be off for a while. When snow shut everything down we knew it might be days before we could get out again. We weren’t in a panic because we were prepared. We checked on our neighbours and counted on our neighbours to work together and just deal with it as best we could. Sounds like our government is planning to help us get back to taking care of ourselves and each other. That’s a plan I can get behind.