'It's Not Going to Stop a Hypersonic Missile': The End of Canada Nice
OTTAWA — Patrick Taylor is the first to stand, raise his right hand and swear an oath to king and country.
An 18-year-old high school graduate who hails from an Ottawa suburb, Taylor is among eight new recruits to the Canadian Armed Forces being sworn-in on this day in April. They're joined by parents, siblings, boyfriends and girlfriends.
"There's obviously a lot of conflict going on right now, and I'd love to be able to help and be part of that and just be on the right side and help people," Taylor, who aspires to be a military engineer, said after the ceremony, which took place in the basement meeting room of a downtown federal office building named after a Canadian economist.
The no-frills setting belies the fact that it's part of a momentous shift taking place across Canadian society: As the world gets darker and more uncertain outside their borders, Canadians are increasingly embracing the need for a more muscular national defense.
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Though Canadians fought alongside Americans in southern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgency was fiercest, Trump has disparaged the American allies who fought in that war. Here today, Canadians remember.
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