{"id":380658,"date":"2018-10-12T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/militarists-grip-over-canadas-parliament\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:45:28","slug":"militarists-grip-over-canadas-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/militarists-grip-over-canadas-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Militarists\u2019 Grip over Canada\u2019s Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>How do you feel about taxpayer-funded organizations using your tax dollars to lobby elected politicians for more of your tax dollars?<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Canadian military.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Anju Dhillon told the House of Commons \u201cI <a href=\"https:\/\/openparliament.ca\/debates\/2018\/10\/3\/anju-dhillon-1\/\">saw first-hand<\/a> the sacrifices that our men and women in the navy have made to protect our country.\u201d The Liberal MP recently participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy-marine.forces.gc.ca\/en\/news-operations\/news-view.page?doc=canadian-leaders-at-sea-civilians-get-an-unforgettable-experience\/iumuuidb\">Canadian Leaders<\/a> at Sea Program, which takes influential individuals on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy-marine.forces.gc.ca\/en\/news-operations\/news-view.page?doc=canadian-leaders-at-sea-program-engages-women\/j92z99r8\">action-packed<\/a>\u201d multi-day navy operations. Conducted on both coasts numerous times annually, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/darrell-samson\/canadian-leaders-at-sea\/1445483335508978\/\">nine Parliamentarians<\/a> from all parties participated in a Spring 2017 excursion and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lookoutnewspaper.com\/parliamentarians-become-sailors-day\/\">number more<\/a> joined at the end of last year. The Commander of the Atlantic Fleet, Commodore Craig Baines, describes the initiative\u2019s political objective: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy-marine.forces.gc.ca\/en\/news-operations\/news-view.page?doc=canadian-leaders-at-sea-civilians-get-an-unforgettable-experience\/iumuuidb\">By exposing<\/a> them to the work of our men and women at sea, they gain a newfound appreciation for how the RCN protects and defends Canada at home and abroad. They can then help us spread that message to Canadians when they return home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And vote for more military spending.<\/p>\n<p>MPs are also drawn into the military\u2019s orbit in a variety of other ways. Set up by DND\u2019s Director of External Communications and Public Relations in 2000, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-national-defence\/programs\/parliamentary-program.html\">Canadian Forces<\/a> Parliamentary Program was labeled a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ottawa-notebook\/when-parliamentarians-go-to-war\/article1381081\/\">valuable public<\/a>-relations tool\u201d by the <em>Globe and Mail.<\/em> Different programs embed MPs in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-national-defence\/programs\/parliamentary-program.html\">army, navy<\/a> and air force. According to the Canadian Parliamentary Review, the MPs \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/revparl.ca\/english\/issue.asp?param=59&amp;art=23\">learn how<\/a> the equipment works, they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/10\/militarists-grip-over-canadas-parliament\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you feel about taxpayer-funded organizations using your tax dollars to lobby elected politicians for more of your tax dollars? Welcome to the Canadian military. Last week Anju Dhillon told the House of Commons \u201cI saw first-hand the sacrifices that our men and women in the navy have made to protect our country.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}