🇨🇦NavalDistinction

Project Naval Distinction ⚓ Projet Distinction Navale

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

Project Naval Distinction⚓️ was founded to promote recognition of the service and sacrifice of ALL branches of 🇨🇦Canada's Armed Forces: the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Achieved entirely by volunteers, in our first 4⃣ years, we...

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

While the CAF employs 700 members across the US, they meanwhile say they can't employ - during a recruiting & retention crisis - the Officer X whistleblower in the US. Meanwhile Officer X (serial sexual misconduct accused) is still serving & supervising #Cdnpoli
@davidpugliese

[Embassy of Canada US @CanEmbUSA]

Yesterday, we celebrated #CanadianArmedForcesDay at the Embassy of Canada. More than 700 CAF members serve across the U.S., strengthening North American security alongside our allies every day. Quiet professionalism. Unwavering dedication. Service to Canada. 🇨🇦

📸: @oskardap

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

The comments here... 😬 #Cdnpoli

[CanadianUK @CanadianUK]

A piece of Canada in London 🍁

Proud to welcome HMCS William Hall – Canada’s 4th Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship, commissioned in 2024 – to the Thames, where she’s moored alongside HMS Belfast until June 7. ⚓

👀 Seen her? Drop a 🇨🇦 below ⤵️

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

@Murray_Brewster The entire honours and recognition system needs a review for abuse and gatekeeping. Bad actors in the chain of command have perverted and weaponized it. #Cdnpoli

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

@RealAlbanianPat Did you ever see the game Prime Minister Forever? https://t.co/NNVX1CfZBM

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

11 years after OP HONOUR and this is what they come up with? #Cdnpoli

"The Canadian Armed Forces is requiring members to disclose relationships of a personal nature with a subordinate."

https://t.co/XrIOjPm5KH

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

@ReadyAyeReady When we proposed naming HMCS Haida as RCN flagship - we succeeded - the senior RCN leadership opposed it and used the possibility of the RCN becoming/appearing to be financially responsible for HMCS Sackville as one of their weak, short-sighted reasons. Total vindication.

[Defence Index @Defence_Index]

Footage shows a Canadian soldier making the worst possible choice during field training, falling asleep beside an M-777 howitzer. 🇨🇦💀

His teammates responded with the most brutal wake up call imaginable, turning the artillery gun into a battlefield alarm clock. 😂📞💥

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

@markrmcqueen @nationalpost Honest? Topshee personally promised to look into & follow up re the Officer X case & reprisals against the whistleblower that were unfolding under his leadership. He lied. He didn't follow up. Whistleblower went public.
Officer X is still serving & in charge of civilian children.

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

Canada didn't have a "merchant marine" it had a Merchant Navy... #Cdnpoli

[🇨🇦 Mark Norman, Vice Admiral (Ret’d) @Comd_RCN_34]

The longest continuous campaign of WW2… the BofA was an all-out effort by the navy, merchant marine, and industry. It was a multinational success that literally changed the tide of the war. Lessons of our past are ever-present. We are grateful for the sacrifices of who gave us what often take for granted today. 🫡

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

@MFWCollins Even in the summer it is still out of the way & nearly invisible. Pointing this out to a senior officer who was personally invested in the delayed & over-budget monument subjected our Founder to petty, vindictive, biased, & abuse-of-power treatment. Truly disgraceful behaviour.

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

Re the RCN monument:

"... initially chose a site in Ottawa at Richmond Landing near the Royal Canadian Navy Monument, but veterans criticized the decision, calling the location isolated and difficult to access, particularly in winter." #Cdnpoli
https://t.co/wnxNwmsTo4

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

@LeBrunJames81 Also lost was Lt Leslie Ward, father of Peter Ward. Peter would go on to serve in the Naval Reserve and be one of the five saviours of HMCS Haida, individuals who mortgaged their homes and took out loans to prevent Canada's "Fightingest" ship from being sent to the scrapyard.

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

"The Canadian Armed Forces, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s cyberspy agency, are currently excluded from the [whistleblowing] system." #Cdnpoli

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Bring military, spy agencies under federal whistleblower law: federal review report https://t.co/MnJqoD1CJT

[David Pugliese @davidpugliese]

Some Canadian Forces personnel left scrambling after cuts to out-of-country allowances. https://t.co/DuV2kcv2hv via @ottawacitizen

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

“I urge the Minister @DavidMcGuinty to remind his public officials, as well as military personnel, of their responsibility in providing timely access to information to Canadians.” #Cdnpoli

Information is oxygen in the fight for justice & accountability. https://t.co/aluRMGTOqb

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

Hey👋 Canada🇨🇦, #dyk that if you filed a complaint TODAY that the federal government unlawfully accessed/disclosed your personal information, you'll be waiting⌚ at least 6️⃣ MONTHS🗓️ (and counting) before the Privacy Commissioner opens your file? #Cdnpoli
https://t.co/4DdJfORTO2

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

The more DND/CAF engages in this type of nonsense, the greater the calls will be for accountability and transparency. #Cdnpoli

[Murray Brewster @Murray_Brewster]

1/9 (A Thread) I very rarely do this but DND/PSPC/DIA left me no choice. What you’re about to read is an important accountability lesson for Canada’s government - in a space where tens of billions of dollars are being spent - or about to be spent.

[National Post @nationalpost]

Defence minister backtracks, now says he was informed 'immediately' after Iranian strike on base housing Canadians

https://t.co/hto5YjvnpS

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

👇 This on top of recent changes to allow Feds to delete records, such as Teams conversations🗣️, after a very short period. Information - and access to it - is air🌬️ in the fight⚔️ for accountability⚖️ of gov't. Anyone else in Canada🇨🇦 finding it harder to breathe 😷? #Cdnpoli

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

Info commissioner Caroline Maynard slams feds’ Access to Information reform proposals for lacking ambition. They ignore delays, broad exemptions and cabinet secrecy. Most complaints hit agencies blowing past 30-day response deadlines — The Canadian Press

[🇨🇦NavalDistinction @NavyDistinction]

@ReadyAyeReady Out front, and pictured, is the National Naval Reserve Monument (still located there today).

Inscribed: "The reservist is twice the citizen".
https://t.co/cUcZgl8o5t