Canada’s Broken Budget and the Union Army

Canada’s Broken Budget and the Union Army By Dale Jodoin Journalist and Columnist The Liberal government’s latest budget sh ows how desperate Canada has become. The plan to fill the military with federal union workers is not innovation. I panic. A military must defend the nation anywhere, anytime, without hesitation. Soldiers answer to the country, not a bargaining committee. Mixing unions with the armed forces is a recipe for collapse. What happens when troops can strike? When deployment becomes a labour dispute? When defending Canada depends on negotiations? That is not readiness. That is surrender. The truth is, the military can no longer convince enough civilians to join. Recruitment has plummeted. The government, under pressure to meet NATO expectations, is trying to fill empty ranks by any means. This is not strategy; it is damage control. The appearance of strength has replaced the reality of it. Unions exist to protect workers, not fight wars. A unionized military would be paralyzed by red tape and political squabbles. Canadians could find themselves defenseless while government employees debate overtime. This is how free nations crumble. Power shifts from citizens to politically protected unions. Every strike becomes leverage. Every contract dispute becomes a threat to national security. What the Liberals call modernization is nothing more than creating a fragile system that could collapse under pressure. We have already seen the warning signs. Postal workers strike. Bureaucrats walk off. Services freeze. Now imagine that attitude in uniform. A military strike during a national crisis would leave Canada vulnerable and humiliated. The government has forgotten that service means sacrifice. It means discipline and loyalty, not entitlement. The armed forces must be built on strength, not paperwork. Canada needs a general election. The people, not unions or party insiders, must decide how this country defends itself. Defence is not a political show. It is survival. If the military becomes just another branch of the civil service, Canada will lose more than its readiness. It will lose its independence. This is only one scenario, one many Canadians have likely imagined. But if we ignore it, we may one day find that the warning came too late.