what do you think of the canadian military?
i am a drill instructor based in toronto and i was wondering what you think of our troops? and what needs to be improved? i train alot of young men and women who wish to fight for our country and i wish to know what you think of them.

Je suis un instructeur de forage basée à Toronto et je me demandais ce que vous pensez de nos troupes? et ce qui doit être amélioré? i la formation d'un grand nombre de jeunes hommes et les femmes qui souhaitent se battre pour notre pays et je voudrais savoir ce que vous pensez d'eux.well josep...to answer your questions, the canadian military does use both french and english. it mainly uses english but if you request a translator or to be placed in a french regimental squadrent or group, then they allow that. people who are french, like me, do not get ailienated or cast aside just becuase their first language is french...the english treat us the same. as long as we do our job, the english do not complain that we speak in french or that we patrionize our culture or our language...thank you for your coment and for asking these questions.......

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what do you think of the canadian military?
i am a drill instructor based in toronto and i was wondering what you think of our troops? and what needs to be improved? i train alot of young men and women who wish to fight for our country and i wish to know what you think of them.

Je suis un instructeur de forage basée à Toronto et je me demandais ce que vous pensez de nos troupes? et ce qui doit être amélioré? i la formation d'un grand nombre de jeunes hommes et les femmes qui souhaitent se battre pour notre pays et je voudrais savoir ce que vous pensez d'eux.well josep...to answer your questions, the canadian military does use both french and english. it mainly uses english but if you request a translator or to be placed in a french regimental squadrent or group, then they allow that. people who are french, like me, do not get ailienated or cast aside just becuase their first language is french...the english treat us the same. as long as we do our job, the english do not complain that we speak in french or that we patrionize our culture or our language...thank you for your coment and for asking these questions.......

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well, i live in a NATO country but never thought canadian were "my" troops. As NATO is a  defensive coalition it would have sound better that you had written that your troopers are wishing to defend their country. I don't know what has to do military affairs in a place for languages but what impressed me a lot is that an officer used the two official languages for the question. are two languages used at the same proportion in operations, instruction, administratio ?. how does canadian army deal with the two national languages reality? Are the the companies/squadrons/batteries etc conformed by linguistic uniformity? the question is serious as here in Spain the differents  languages are abused in the army and you can only be really a patriot if you only speak spanish, otherwise you are considered a separatist, a traitor, a dessafected, whatever. for instance, catalans are called "polish", because we speak "strange" and baskes "turks" for the same reason and to differenciate because baskes are also potencial "terrorists" for sure.  I'd like to have an answer, really.

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I think that hearing from an officer who wants to know this shows great insight and wisdom. Based on this contact alone, I'm impressed with the Canadian military, especially the drill instructors. : )

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I don't know much about them living in Australia, but it seems that you guys are doing a great job.

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