"my military buds are livid and questioning why they are wearing the uniform".
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Are you suggesting that your "military buds" only want to wear the uniform if the a government that condones and participates in
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(a) torture of Canadian citizens;
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(b) indefinite detention without trial of Canadian citizens?
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If that is why they are wearing the uniform, then, yes, perhaps they should reconsider.
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From 1939 - 1945, 43,000 Canadians died fighting  against the lawlessness of a totalitarian dictatorship.  Among the lessons of that conflict was that the greatest source of prosperity, security, and liberty of democracies are civil rights.
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Governments do not have the right to torture people;
to hold people in indefinite detention without trial;
to deny citizens the benefits and protections of the criminal law.
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Those are the values that the Canadian Army fought for at Dieppe and Ortona, in Normandy, and in Holland.
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They are the values that the SCC has upheld.
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You should be thankful.