The Canadian military flew a signals intercept aircraft over the Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa in 2022, lied about it when journalists asked, changed their story when the tail number was identified, and have been blocking ATIP requests ever since. Brian Isted, a former Canadian Army captain, military intelligence analyst, and founder of True Patriot Love Media, explains what he found when he went looking for answers. On recruitment: Canada has a current complement of approximately 55,000 personnel against a full complement of around 75,000. But it is not that Canadians do not want to join. Isted says six-figure numbers of Canadians have applied in recent years and cannot get in because of bureaucratic and administrative dysfunction so severe that by the time applicants complete a sixteen-month process, they have already found other work. Meanwhile the military pursued a DEI-driven push to recruit non-citizens who in some cases had been in the country for only a few months, placed them together in officer training platoons, and experienced massive attrition and serious conflict between different national groups. The irony, Isted notes, is not lost on anyone.On equipment: military police officers were sharing pistols because there were not enough to assign individually. When the pistols broke, they were cannibalizing existing firearms for parts because the weapons were so old that replacement parts no longer existed. Isted spent close to two years in procurement and has firsthand exposure to this. Seven of fourteen audited military housing units were found unfit for habitation by the Auditor General. Isted personally found asbestos removal teams quietly working in buildings where soldiers were sleeping, scheduled for times when soldiers were supposed to be away.On the DEI apparatus: Isted says the military is in a woke DEI legacy project driven by senior leadership more interested in their post-military careers than in operational readiness. General Janine Carignan, the former Chief of the Defence Staff, struck him as a nice person who does not look like she belongs commanding a force designed to kill people. Right-wing extremism was identified at the senior leadership level as the primary domestic threat to Canada, a claim that prompted people in those meetings to look around at each other in disbelief. Isted says frontline police officers and honest senior military people know what the actual threats are and it is not right-wing extremism.On capability: Canada could not defend itself without American and NATO support. The NYPD is larger than the entire Canadian Armed Forces. Canada's strength is at the special operations and senior leadership level, where it punches well above its weight internationally. But people are leaving the building because they are embarrassed of what it has become.On the COVID vaccine mandate: hundreds of people were released under what amounts to a dishonourable discharge, making them ineligible for government employment, for refusing a mandate that has since been shown to be scientifically unsound. Nobody in the chain of command that vindictively pursued those soldiers has faced any consequences.Soldiers were sharing pistols because there were not enough to go around. How much would it cost to fully equip the military police branch with individual sidearms and how does that compare to the $1.3 million spent on the LGBTQ veteran camera project?Let us know what you think in the comments.#canadiannews #canadapolitics #canada #thereallybigshow #canadianmilitary #freedomconvoy #brianisted #truepatriotlove #cafveteran