Recent content by FJAG

Fully agree. I dislike drawing any conclusions based solely on a newspaper article - even one coming from a witness before a House of Commons committee but this sounds like a major failure within the CoC. Considering how many years its been there has probably been, at a minimum, a failure to...

Just an aside re the expansion: 🍻

DND has the burden of having to comply with the Privacy Act (see also DAOD 1002-6which states: Note that the release authority under 8(2)(m)(i) is DAIP. I expect that there are probably a half dozen legal opinions accessible to you that discuss how the act is to be interpreted within DND...

Disbarment is really not enough but is the best that a governing body can do. The one thing that I do not see in the article is that she is being pursued on criminal charges. She deserves time in jail for this. 🍻

I think that the idea was not so much from dirt but to protect the uniform from being damaged by protrusions and to protect the sight and charging handle while being used for drill. The forestock cover seems ideal for protecting the uniform from both abrasion and dirt at the shoulder...

That wasn't the uniform's fault. Why is it that hundreds of thousands of soldiers in dozens of armies could wear tan uniforms and not "sweat oil". Maybe we should have brought in a few Brit RSMs to kick some butt. 🍻

The TAPV was part of a variety of programs instituted while Afghanistan was still a thing and we were settling into that type of conflict. Additional projects of the approximate time frame involved the close combat vehicle, the LAV upgrade to the LAV 6, the purchase of an additional 25 M777s and...

No, but they were also issued to all of us who crewed M109s or the M113 family of tracks in the artillery. That's me in the right front doing an "open action" (basically a direct fire shoot). At the time I was the gun position officer of F Bty in Pet. F Bty (Phantom F) didn't actually exist. 2...

I like it. I liked my AFV crewsuit and jacket, too. :cool:

It's our European heritage. Most of the European nations have significant regimental alterations in their dress (some even combat) uniforms. And its spread far and wide. Each a unique uniform within a different army and yet uniform within each unit. Why should Canadians all look "blandly...

It may, but I doubt they SCC will interfere. In a previous case the SCC said: The words are not determinative to the issue on appeal (which concerned a lawyer being disciplined by the law society for improper public advertising and the his initially successful attempt to have the director of...

A bit yes and a bit no. The roles of paralegals and notaries varies in each province so there isn't much consistency in the various law society acts about them. It's fair enough to say there are 9 elected professionals on the council (5 lawyers, 2 paras and 2 notaries). Of the remaining, 3...

Arbitrarily removing a privilege is also an injustice. But it's not just a privilege, its an important aspect for keeping a democratic society free. Let's put Shakespeare's famous quote in context. A bar and a judiciary independent of the executive, together with a solid constitution, is one...

I won't get into a rant over this - was never a member of the BC bar and only lived in BC for 11 weeks when doing my initial Basic Officer Trg. Two points. 1 - Law societies generally have a small staff and the benchers carry the workload on a volunteer basis. (ask me - I was one for eight...

You're right. The unified green uniform came into use in 1970 (maybe even a year earlier). All I remember anyone calling it in those days was "Greens" or "service dress." The rank collar badges came out with it for the NCM and slip ons for officers when in shirt sleeve order. If I remember...