The Cost of Canada’s Militarist Culture: Perspectives From a Former Cadet

Fernando Arce — Sun, 10 May 2020 06:14:15 +0000

Is war rhetoric desensitizing Canadians to its effects?

On April 23rd, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the government would be deploying the Canadian Armed Forces to fight COVID-19 on what he had earlier described as the “front lines.” An interesting choice of words, I thought, given Canada’s devastating sanctions on North Korea imposed since last year as well as its controversial involvement in Iraq since 2014.

As a former cadet, this has led me to question the role of Canada’s militarist culture, and the effect this type of war rhetoric has on the minds of Canadians.

Growing up as a Canadian cadet, I was taught that the military is the most important aspect of society and that it deserves unquestioned respect. Trips to museums, Remembrance Day parades and even school assignments were all designed to instill in us the idea that soldiers are noble and that wars are fought for democracy and freedom. The very idea of citizenship is linked to military culture, something that became evident when we toured the HMCS Fredericton naval war ship during a so-called “Citizenship Trip.” To this day, I’m not clear what a naval ship has to do with citizenship.

Conversations at any cadet gathering are invariably the same: video games and pre-teen gossip, the Victoria Cross, whose brother or father was in Afghanistan and, of course, the Gurkhas – Nepali soldiers who we were taught had built a society that honoured martial prowess above all else: the ideal society by a cadet’s standards.

Canada’s Cadets program, known as Cadets Canada, has always been about the development of soldiers. The program began in the mid-19th century as "Drill Associations" to instill militarism in children amid an outburst of support for imperialism. The program ran into stiff opposition in the 1930s from parents who were wary of sending their children to the military after the First World War. As a result, the program was scrapped from schools and made voluntary. Today, it is plagued with scandals of veterans and soldiers who have used it to prey upon children sexually.

It was only after moving to South Korea in 2014, that I would come to understand how Canada’s militarism left not democracy but decades of silence, pain and suffering in South Korea following the Korean War in the 1950s.

After the Second World War, Koreans were creating a unified state and undoing the wrongs of Japanese colonialism. Western intervention interrupted that historical process, leaving Korea divided to this day.

***

I arrived in South Korea in 2014 for a job after graduating university and have never left. At first, all I knew about Korea came from a cheap paperback I had read about Canada’s role in the Korean War. Canada had sent 20,000 soldiers to join the United Nations force, I had learned, so I felt obligated to visit battle sites.

That book had painted Canadians as benevolent and well-trained soldiers protecting civilians, while Americans were presented as arrogant and wasteful, namely for their blundering attempt to invade China. It reduced Korean history to a series of battles led by foreign forces and UN decisions, while Koreans themselves were barely mentioned. By its end, I was left believing that the UN saved South Korea in the name of freedom and democracy. (Today, I call this widespread opinion what it really is: Western arrogance.)

The book had left me with the impression that South Korea had somehow disappeared from history only to reappear in the 1990s as a democratic success story. It did so by skipping from the 1950s directly to the ‘90s, leaving me with no information about what had happened outside those years. The brutal dictatorships in between had been conveniently left out as they undermined the narrative that the Korean War of the ‘50s had been waged to protect democracy.

My time in South Korea, however, had started to undermine those ideas and my beliefs about war and the military in general.

In my first year here, I visited the Korean War Memorial and the adjacent museum, next to the American military base. The museum stands as a token of appreciation to veterans, and it serves as a reminder that the Korean War was fought over “liberty” with the help of former American General Douglas MacArthur. Today, elderly Koreans in downtown Seol can still be seen marching, waving American and Israeli flags to publicly thank Western veterans and Donald Trump.

But not everybody feels the same.

In late 2016 and 2017, Seoul’s downtown was flooded with demonstrators against the right-wing president Park Geun-hye, who was accused of corruption.

As I walked through the protests, what I witnessed betrayed the idea that war and battle were the precursors to democracy, as the Cadet program had instilled in me. From what I was seeing, in South Korea, that simply wasn’t the case.

For one, Koreans from all walks of life happily cooperated with each other and milled about as bands played, people sang and entrepreneurs sold foam mats and water. There was no sign of military might being celebrated.

In fact, while the protests had been sparked by corruption allegations against Park Geun-hye, they were also about rejecting militarism.

Park had closely cooperated with the US in military and free-trade agreements and had controversially installed anti-missile defense batteries in South Korea, which critics considered to be aggravating the global nuclear arms race. As a result, large democratic movements had begun incorporating anti-militarism and making it a central part of their mandate.

Unions and radical student groups, I came to learn, also played a major role in the pro-democracy movements that continue to this day in South Korea.

***

Still surviving in the middle of Dongdaemun – one of South Korea’s biggest shopping centres – are long warehouses that snake their way through a shopping district. Today, tourists wander through the long, cramped buildings of the fabric markets looking for deals on fabric and cheap clothes. But Dongdaemun was once also the centre of South Korean fabric manufacturing and the heart of Park Chung-hee’s drive for development.

Park Geun-hye is the daughter of Park Chung-hee, a military dictator who ruled South Korea for decades with an iron fist. After the Korean War, South Korea was a devastated state with no resources and needed to rebuild.

Enter Park Chung-hee’s dictatorship, which used US loans received as payment for deploying South Korean soldiers to the Vietnam War, to develop the nation’s economy through large business conglomerates. South Korean workers, particularly in those notorious fabric markets, were consequently subjected to deplorable working conditions, little pay and no democratic freedoms in order to develop the economy.

In 2018, with the help of members of the International Strategy Centre, a South Korean group covering the 2016 protests in English, I met Shin Soon-aeh, a labour and union activist who had worked in those infamous fabric markets in the 1960s under Chung-hee’s dictatorship.

She recalled how women worked long hours for very little money and were forced to share one bathroom with all workers in the building. The almost entirely female workforce didn’t have menstrual products, she said, and had to walk across the cramped factory floor just to go to the washroom. The hours were long and the pay was miserable.

Similar conditions occurred in the massive industrial factories of Guro before it became the “Guro Digital Industrial Complex.” In the 1980s, workers there had slaved for measly wages in order to develop South Korea’s industrial might under the dictatorships of Park Chung-hee and then Chun Doo-hwan.

According to Soon-aeh, it was in the fabric markets that the modern South Korean left and subsequent pro-democracy movements were born. That moment will perhaps forever be marked by the solemn day when a young man named Jeon Tae-il had self-immolated outside her workplace in protest against the treatment of workers, she recalled.

It was his sacrifice that would impulse future students to risk arrest, torture and sexual assault in order to organize unions in factories in Guro District in the 1980s. As a result, a massive pro-democracy movement built from the might of unions and radical students who worked together to overthrow Chun’s dictatorship was established.

South Korea’s first president from those pro-democracy movements, Kim Dae-jung, would come to be elected in 1997.

Contrary to what I had learned as a Canadian Cadet, it was the sacrifice of people like Jeon Tae-il and the strength of subsequent popular movements by South Koreans that had brought democratic reforms to South Korea. Not war. And certainly not Canada.

***

In Canada, at school, Remembrance Day was a time to celebrate the vileness of war: children participated in essay-writing contests on the theme of Remembrance Day through either written melodramas or recreations of World War II video games.

This is in stark contrast to what I witnessed when I visited the Jeju 4.3 museum, a memorial to the victims of the 1948 Jeju Uprising. That year, Jeju islanders protested the elections that would ratify the division of Korea. The South Korean government would respond by massacring the inhabitants of Jeju in a scorched-earth strategy.

When I visited the museum in 2019, it was eerily quiet, and posters plastered everywhere reminded visitors that the entire building was a memorial to the victims. There were no aggressive declarations such as “We will remember them.”

The museum’s very existence had been hard-won, as the Jeju Uprising, or 4.3 as it’s known in South Korea, was only acknowledged in the ‘90s, and any mention of it before then could be prosecuted under the National Security Law. In 2003, then-president of South Korea, Noh Moo-hyun, gave a formal apology and the museum was opened with funds from a legal settlement with the government.

The Jeju Uprising and the resulting massacre contradicted the idea that Canada and the UN had fought a “police action” to save a fledgling democracy in the Korean War.

As I left the museum, I was overcome by a sobering realization that betrayed all I had learned as a cadet: Canada hadn’t actually defended democracy in the Korean war. On the contrary, it had only created decades of suffering for South Koreans.

***

While declaring a war on COVID-19 might seem innocuous, the celebration of Canada's militarist culture is not. As seen in the case of South Korea, its legacy is one of pain and destruction.

As such, opposing a declaration of war at home is more important than ever as Canada currently enforces sanctions on North Korea, effectively continuing to disrupt the Korean peace process.

The assumption that the military fights for freedom and democracy, which I used to believe in, stands in the way of peace. Declaring war on COVID-19 endangers Canadians and the rest of the world as it normalizes militarism.

Kelly Jarman works in Seoul, where he teaches business English and standardized tests. He works with the International Strategy Center to educate an international audience on Korean labour and social movements. He is originally from Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he took part in the literary community and student politics.

GroundWire August 5 | MMIWG2S Campaigns, Bill 21 Passes in Quebec, & Winnipeg’s Portage Place Sold

GroundWire Production — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:22:51 +0000

This episode of GroundWire was produced at CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal on the unceded, traditional Kanien’keha:ka and produced by Gau Mahadevan and voiced by Zo.

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Headlines:
- Fossil-Power Top 50 Corporate Mapping Project Released | Catherine Fisher (CJLY)
- Val-David Company Announced General Contractor for Laval Migrant Prison | Amy Lloyd, Gau Mahadevan (CKUT)
- Continued Dakota Pipeline Land Resistance in Manitoba | Michael Welch (CKUW)

Features:
- MMIWG2S Campaigns Draw to an End | Robin Eriksson, Keira Reid (CJSF); Michael Welch (CKUW)

- Coalition Avenir Québec Successful in Passing Bill 21 | Amy Lloyd, Gau Mahadevan (CKUT)

- Winnipeg's Portage Place Sold to Toronto-Developer | Michael Welch (CKUW)

Community Radio Report:
Community Radio Veterans Question NCRA-CBC Pilot Project | Gau Mahadevan (CKUT)

Music:
LAL - Belong

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Over 60 actions organized internationally in response to police raid of Wet'suwet'en

David Gray-Donald — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 20:33:09 +0000

On January 7th, Canada stumbled into the global spotlight following RCMP raids on the Gidumt’en camp in Northern BC.

The RCMP were enforcing an injunction granting Coastal GasLink access to the Gidumt’en camp, one of two camps set up by Wet’suwet’en clans to defend their territory from pipeline construction. The raid resulted in fourteen arrests. In response, thousands of people gathered in over sixty cities around the world—from Toronto to San Fransisco to Stockholm—to support the Wet’suwet’en peoples and their opposition to the pipeline.

Tensions eased on Friday, January 11th, after hereditary chiefs agreed to allow Coastal GasLink to carry out pre-construction work beyond the access point. The Unist'ot'en—the other Wet’suwet’en clan who have established a traditional camp along the proposed pipeline route—released a statement explaining the context of this decision, stating, "We have demonstrated that this fight is about more than a pipeline; it is about the right of Indigenous peoples around the world to exercise Free, Prior, and Informed Consent."

The statement echoes the wording of Article 19 of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which reads, "States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them."

Coastal GasLink is a subsidiary of TransCanada, now called TC Energy, who argue in favour of the pipeline, which will carry natural gas from near Dawson, BC to ports in Kitimat. They point out that they've received consent from all Indigenous nations along its route. However, some Indigeous leaders argue that this consent is insufficient, since while band council chiefs along the pipeline's route have signed, many hereditary chiefs have refused.

This struggle gets to the heart of deep questions surrounding Indigenous sovereignty in Canada. Wet’suwet’en leaders maintain that since each clan governed its own territory historically, the centralized band councils established by the Canadian government have no right to make territorial decisions on behalf of individual clans. Several sections of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples could be interpreted as asserting Indigenous peoples' right to determine their own leadership stuctures (like Articles 3–5), undermining the band council system, and with it, the justification under international law for many resource extraction projects currently underway.

To support Wet’suwet’en opposition to the pipeline, you can donate to the Unist'ot'en Camp Legal Fund or to the Gidumt’en access point.

GROUNDWIRE OCTOBER 8 | MMIW HEARINGS AND VIGILS, MASS DEMONSTRATION AGAINST RACISM, MB CARBON TAX

GroundWire Production — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 06:09:15 +0000

This episode of GroundWire was produced on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the New Credit by the GroundWire National Coordination Team in Toronto.

Headlines:

B.C. Supreme Court Ruling on Jumbo Glacier Resort | Catherine Fisher, CJLY

Withdrawal of Manitoba's Carbon Tax Commitment | Michael Welch, CKUW

Eviction of ‘Namegans Nation’ in B.C. | Chris Cook, CFUV

Features:

MMIW Hearings in Winnipeg | Michael Welch, CKUW

Nation-Wide MMIW Vigils | Michael Welch, CKUW; Lizzie Chatham and CKUT News Collective

Mass Post-Election Demonstration Against Hatred and Coalition Avenir Quebec in Montreal | CKUT News Collective, Rian Adamanian

Community Radio Report:

New Off-Site Studio and Funding Initiative at CJSF | Michael Welch, CKUW

Music:

Ice Walker - Iskwé

Thanks to all our contributors for this week’s episode. We also thank Michael Welch, Chris Cook, Catherine Fisher, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, and Gau Mahadevan.

GroundWire | April 9

GroundWire Production — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:08:32 +0000

Actions against Deportation, Manitoba Hydro Board Resignations, & Vigil for Palestine

This episode of GroundWire was produced on the unceded territory of the Mohawk and Algonquin peoples in Montreal by Gretchen King.

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Headlines

National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Vancouver | Co-op Radio, Gunargie O'Sullivan

Annual 7th Generation Walk for Mother Earth in Winnipeg | Michael Welch, CKUW

Features

Actions against Community Organizer’s Deportation | Sejeong Park, CKUT

Manitoba Hydro Board Resignations | Michael Welch, CKUW

Vigil for Palestine | Gretchen King, CKUT

Community Radio Report

Celebrate Earth Day 2018 with second annual Wetland broadcast | Co-op Radio

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Music this week was by Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq.

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GroundWire | March 26

GroundWire Production — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:39:01 +0000

Indigenous Justice, Crystal Meth Crisis, & Inequalities in Healthcare

This episode of GroundWire was produced on the unceded territory of the Mohawk and Algonquin peoples in Montreal by Gretchen King.

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Headlines

March 15 demo against police brutality | Julie Bugiel, CKUT

New collective agreement for Safeway workers | Michael Welch, CKUW

Protesting pipelines from Burnaby to Ottawa | GWNC with files from Stand Earth

Features

Walkouts for Indigenous justice | Julie Bugiel, CKUT

Crystal Meth crisis in Winnipeg | Michael Welch, CKUW

Uniting against growing inequalities in Quebec's healthcare | Gretchen King, CKUT

Community Radio Report

Community radio in Swaziland presentation to World Social Forum workshop on Community Radio in Africa | Gretchen King, CKUT

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Music this week was recorded in the streets of Montreal by CKUT.

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GroundWire | Housing in the Budget, Fontaine Boushie Protest Camp, International Women's Day

GroundWire Production — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:52:04 +0000

Community Radio News from Coast to Coast to Coast

This episode of GroundWire was produced on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit in Toronto by the GroundWire National Coordination Team, hosted by Omme-Salma Rahemtullah.

Headlines

All Out for Abdoul Abdi National Day of Action | National Federation of Students - Nova Scotia

Manitoba Safeway Grocery Stores Works vote in favour of a strike mandate | Michael Welch, CKUW

Features

Examination of poverty and housing in the the recently tabled Manitoba and Federal budgets | Michael Welch, CKUW

Youth-led protest camp seeking accountability for the deaths of Tina Fontaine and Colton Boushie sets up outside Old City Hall in Toronto | Axile Gerona, CJRU

International Women's Day coverage from Montreal | Sejeong Park, Angello Alcázar Jiménez, Dorothy Yip and Max Kupperman, CKUT

Community Radio Report

Community radio is a vehicle for mobilizing support against the Kinder Morgan Pipeline | Gunargie O'Sullivan, Coop Radio

We thank all of our contributors, as well as Gau Mahadevan for making this episode possible

Music this week was No Kanada and Sky is Falling by Lee Reed from his album The Butcher, The Banker, The Bitumen Tanker

Activist Court Support: Kinder Morgan wants permanent ban on protesting of pipeline expansion project

Billie Pierre — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 06:52:55 +0000

March 15-16, 10am, BC Supreme Court, 800 Smithe St. Vancouver

Opponents of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline faced the Texas oil giant at an injunction applicaton hearing in B.C. Supreme Court today.

Background

In the spring of 2017, a judicial review to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion was filed by the Tsleil-Waututh (North Vancouver), Sto:lo (upper Fraser Valley), Coldwater and Upper Nicola bands (Merritt) and the Stk’emlupsemc Te Secwepemc (Kamloops). Also included were the cities of Burnaby and Vancouver and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and Living Oceans Society.

The review was heard in October 2017, and throughout the province the project is at a standstill until the federal government makes a decision - except in Burnaby. Kinder Morgan got approval to begin expanding the Westridge Marine Terminal and tank farm on Burnaby Mountan.

The National Energy Board allowed Kinder Morgan to bypass local laws and permits after the company argued that it's a federal project. The City of Burnaby is appealing that decision. The B.C. government is also working to restrict any increase of diluted bitumen passing through the province while it studies spill impacts. In February, the NEB granted Kinder Morgan permission to build a pipeline tunnel through Burnaby Mountan to connect its tank farm to its tanker terminal on Burrard Inlet.

Camp Cloud

A grassroots group of pipeline opponents set up Camp Cloud KM Surveillance last November near the main Westbridge Marine Terminal gate to track developments. Five days later, the City of Burnaby evicted them, placing giant cement blocks where they had been parked. Camp Cloud KM Surveillance relocated to outside the tank farm and continued to keep tabs on any expansion work. Last Wednesday, the mass clearing of trees began. It’s estimated about 400 trees have aready been cleared, and that number is climbing daily.

There have been nine arrests since Camp Cloud was set up. Notably, last Thursday - on International Women’s Day - three women chained themselves to trees, slowing down work for hours. The RCMP officers who arrested them were all men. They sexually assaulted one woman, making her strip off her layers of clothes, then gave her a t-shirt - an experience she said felt degrading and disrespectful. She told them: “You're lucky I let you arrest me, because you're criminalizing people who are defending the water you drink”.

Justin Trudeau Brigade

This group has been holding regular blockades at Westridge Terminal and Port Moody since December. Their morning blockades are frequent and usually last a few hours. The group's name comes from Trudeau's statement that "governments grant permits, only communities grant permission".

In Court

Last Friday, a B.C. Supreme Court judge granted Kinder Morgan a temporary interim injunction against 15 activists. The company can now use the RCMP to forcibly remove and arrest these people if they are found within 50 metres of "Kinder Morgan property".

That temporary injunction was granted one day before a mass Save The Inlet protest brought out an estimated 10,000 people to show their opposition to the project. During the protest, the Tsleil Wututh built a traditional Kwekwecnewtxw house (“the place to watch from”) near the Kinder Morgan Tank Farm.

Today, those protesters named in the application argued on three major points:

1. Indigenous Peoples have the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent to any development on their territory. Tsleil Waututh, Secwepemc and other Indigenous peoples have made their opposition to this pipeline clear and we stand with them.

2. This injunction puts Kinder Morgan’s pursuit of profit above people’s safety, livelihood, and ability to exercise free expression and to move freely on our streets and in our neighborhoods. Further, the over-use of injunctions in B.C. against social movements represents a large-scale assault on our civil liberties.

3.We have been told repeatedly that KM security and the RCMP are acting in the interests of our safety. We assert that transporting tar sands bitumen across land and water for export constitutes reckless endangerment and it is we who have acted in good conscience for the safety of our families, communities and ecosystem.

The lawyer for Kinder Morgan spoke all morning and those named in the applicaton began to speak in the afternoon. The hearing will reconvene tomorrow at the B.C. Supreme Court starting at 10 am at 800 Smithe St., Courtroom 55.

Quotes from some of the defendants

“Kinder Morgan is doing its job safeguarding the interests of its shareholders. And I, a mom, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, am doing my job safeguarding the interests of my community, our young, and our ecosystem.” - Bina Salimath

“What Kinder Morgan is doing is classic colonialism: the wealthy and powerful coming into someone else's space and forcing their will on the people and environment with no concern for either in order to further enrich themselves.” - David Mivasair

“I have lived and raised my daughters in Coquitlam. Everyone from Coquitlam knows that you don't get in between a Mama bear and her cubs! The Kinder Morgan Expansion Pipeline is threatening my children's future; the Salmon; and the Resident Orcas. Kinder Morgan you don't want to piss off Mama Bear!” - Sandra Ang

“This suit is a David and Goliath story and those don’t end well for the giant.” - Rev. Laurel Dykstra

GroundWire | February 26

GroundWire Production — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:44:53 +0000

Homelessness in Prince George and injustice in racist courts in Canada

This episode of GroundWire was produced on the traditional unceded territory of the Lheidli T'enneh: at CFUR in Prince George, BC.

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Headlines

Protesting without Fear seeks ban on the use of plastic bullets by police | News Collective, CKUT

Survivors who condemn the 60s scoop settlement get organized in Manitoba | Michael Welch, CKUW

Features

Homelessness in Prince George | Grant Bachand, CFUR

Day of action seeking justice for Colten (Coco) Boushie | News Collective, CKUT

Racist courtrooms in Canada produce public outcry | Michael Welch, CKUW

Community Radio Report

After shutting down in January, CIBL back on air for a special program on World Radio Day (Feb 13) | Gretchen King, CKUT

We thank all of our contributors, and our hosts at CFUR Laura Smith and Grant Bachand.

Music this week was 300 Feet by sober becky (from the album Odes and Observations).

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GroundWire | January 15

GroundWire Production — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 02:27:25 +0000

Security brings insecurity to uWinnipeg

This episode of GroundWire was produced by the GroundWire National Coordination Team in Montreal on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishnabee nations.

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Headlines

Dr. Hassan Diab Set to be Released from Prison in France | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, GWNC

New radical community space remembers the Mondragon | Michael Welch and Jarrett Cole, CKUW

Former child refugee, long-term permanent resident fights deportation from Canada | Prison Radio, CKUT

Features

Security brings insecurity to University of Winnipeg | Michael Welch, CKUW

Community Radio Report

Nipivut bring Inuit community radio to southern Canada | Gretchen King, CKUT

Music this week was Northern Cree’s Cree Cuttin' from “It’s A Cree Thing - Cree Round Dance Songs.”

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