First about you,” my community" Erin Mills Mississauga.

 

In my brief and humble political efforts to improve the safety, health and prosperity of our community, I’ve been overwhelmed by the kindness and support of my neighbours new and old.

 

You breathe life into and make real, our true Canadian values everyday. 

 

For that I am eternally grateful.  Mike

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Will Canada survive the global conflict of China/Taiwan without becoming the 51st state of USA?

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A:  In my opinion no. If the conflict lands on our shores with our current military at 58% readiness. 

 

Q: Do we have time to prepare to strengthen our country? 

 

A: Yes, if we take immediate and decisive steps today.

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 I will gladly speak to small or large groups in Erin Mills Riding, time permitting, or any questions contact me at:             

 

stopcrimevotemikemat_@outlook.com

 

Please note: I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories, only the facts.

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My apologies in advance.This page is long.   

 

Slogans require little thought and few words, actionable plans require much thought and many words.

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You may like my" Holy Cow, that's allot of cops" report at bottom of page.

 

Investing in people or battery plants, which is better for the  Canadian economy?

Interesting read at end of Chapter 1.

 

 

Briefing Notes 

 

Canada has 3 to 5 years to prepare for serious challenges to our internal and external sovereignty and military commitments. 

 

We face 2 wars today. The United States declared economic war on us, which is first step of a soft take over of a country's sovereignty.

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The other war costs thousands of  Canadian lives annually, to drugs and guns supplied at great profit $$$ by international organized crime.

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YOUR vote and selection of an MP, will determine if we win or loose these wars. 

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Our Canadian Armed Forces “CAF” and police services desperately need more people, our economy needs to be robust and our communities need to be strong, safe and committed.

 

I developed the Hybrid Police / Military Reservist program to help build up our police and military, seed our economy for growth and strengthen all communities across Canada.

 

Yes, a bold plan with big numbers and little time left to implement, but if we pull together we can do it.

 

Implementing this program, sends a clear message to the world. 

 

“We are a strong sovereign and determined nation, 

• Canada is a safe place to invest your dollars, and 

• we keep our promises to our people, allies ( Nato 2% GDP ) and foes.

 

HPMR program is

• a nationally co-ordinated community focused 

• crime reduction, safety, health and prosperity initiative 

• benefiting all Canadians.  

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Hybrid Police / Military Reservist 80/20 Program. “HPMR”

 

HPMR program with the same 2% Nato committed tax dollar!

1. Will rebuild Canadian Armed Forces “CAF”,

2. Address chronic police staff shortage across Canada, making communities safer,

3. Will boost their local economies seeding businesses new jobs.

4. Will reduce pressure on municipal tax growth.

5. Will provide 360,000 good paying jobs by 2030.

 

 

HPMR is not,  the militarization of the police but the “civilianization support backbone” of a new military model.

 

 

Nato / Defence Funding Requirements

 

HPMR candidates will be designated as 

1) part of R.C.M.P. Canada's National Police Force,

2) trained in military tactics,

3) equipped as a military force, 

4)can be operated under direct military authority in deployed operations, 

5)and realistically, be deployed outside national territory in support of a military force

6) without detriment to the on going needs of communities they serve.

 

Note: HPMR staff will be in the uniform of their employing agency indistinguishable in appearance and duties from permanent members of the service.

 

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Why the need for  80/20 HPMR program!

 

1) Our police services must evolve to adequately address today’s international sources of crime, a rapidly increasing threat to our communities health, safety and prosperity.

 

2) Our Canadian Armed Forces “CAF,” at the same time must adapt to today’s internal and external threats to our security and sovereignty by offering a better inclusive military experience for all Canadians.

 

 

But Today!

 

Canadian Armed Forces, “CAF”    **cannot defend our sovereignty**

• Due to recruitment and retention crisis 

• compounded by outdated equipment.

 

CAF’s  present reservists’ options A,B,&C,

• will not attract quality and quantity of troops ,

• military aged men and women  prefer civilian life which is a  “World wide issue”

 

Royal Canadian Mounted Police .. cannot fulfill it’s mandate of protecting Canadians

• from international organized crime

• that is eroding the safety of every community.

• Estimated Costs of crime between 6% to 12% GDP to Canada

 

Why: Shortage of staff and current outdated model of federal/municipal police services.

 

Municipal Police Services     **cannot protect communities**

• due to chronic  shortage of staff and competing demands, outdated police model

 

Home / Business Municipal taxes too high and  “cannot afford more police staff.”

 

 

 Briefly:

 

Publicly funded organizations  hires HPMR recruits as full time employees, in addition to their regular staff,  ensuring no impact to community services provided, when HPMR on active military duty. 

 

HPMR employee is a full time permanent career with 10 months dedicated to their profession as heavy rig operator, police officer, paramedic, logistics officer or one of the 107 skills required by CAF.

 

The remaining 2 months they will be on active military duty.

 

 The HPMR program by 2030 will

• provide Canadian Armed Forces “CAF” with 6 groups of 60,000 reservists troops,  

• each group will have a 2 month military deployment,  

• for year round staffing of the Arctic Outposts and other Military Programs. 

• Total  360,000 in case of war.

• Hiring starts Sept 2025, by all provinces and territories.

 

 

Note: HPMR program is intended to fill the 107 different career positions required by Canadian Armed Forces “CAF”

 

Police officers are the first wave of the program due to; 

1. critical need for community safety, 

2. ideal skill set/ experience  for quality troops,  

3. Ideal candidates for  CAF middle management shortage,

4. Police have 4 decades of addressing toxic work place and 

5. community representation staffing model, present CAF goals,

6. all provinces and territories immediate participation and benefit to their communities  by September 1st/2025

 

The program name will change after first wave of police/peace officer hire to Hybrid Civilian/Military Reservist Program “ HCMP” option D for Military Reservists.

 

 

A civilian component of an HPMR Program vital to our sovereignty.

 

Many remote northern communities do not have affordable fresh food, clean water, housing, health care etc., that are fundamental rights of all Canadians.

 

A Crown Corporation, Federal, Provincial or Territorial could build and  operate a supply logistics program, using the Canadian Military template, with HPMR staff.

 

This provides CAF with equipped and trained logistics staff for military operations as required.  

 

Employing engineers, heavy equipment operators, big rig drivers, material handlers, procurement staff, pilots, aircraft and naval technicians etc., all required by CAF.

 

This would provide  several regularly scheduled permanent supply chains from southern industrial centres to our Arctic Communities.

 

Aside from the obvious health, economic and social benefits for remote communities, it would provide a lasting Canadian infrastructure presence in our Arctic Territories demonstrating our territorial rights to our lands.

 

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Chapter 1.

 

The Fine Print. “The devil is in the details.”

 

Why would this recruitment model work when most fail? 

 

World Wide, fewer men and women want a military career. The hardships of a soldiers life during war is graphically displayed on their social media platforms daily.

 

The freedoms and advantages of civilian life or the risks and rigours of full time military life is an easy choice for most to make.

 

As a result European Militaries, United Kingdom and Canada have failed for years to meet their recruitment and retention goals using the volunteer model of enlistment.

 

Military conscription models of ; 

1) Mandatory Service, ( Finland, Israel), 

2) Lottery Driven Service (Denmark, Latvia) 

3) Selective Compulsory Service ( Norway and Sweden) 

all have their pros and cons. 

 

In my opinion, the Canadian public would not support any conscription military recruitment program. 

 

However when you examine many civilian careers, they align very well with the 107 skills/positions of CAF. 

 

The option of working full time in a public organization of your choice with a 2 month annual military duty , 80/20 , would offer a good balance between civilian and military life. 

 

Keeping in mind, many of these sought after jobs, have many applicants with very few positions available.

 

For example, in the GTA for every 1 police officer position, it is not unusual to have 8 or more applicants most of whom would make fine officers. Competition is very tough for so few available positions.

 

 

 Police officers are quality Military Reservists

 

Our Military Services, protect world peace by enforcing international law.

 

Our Police Services, protect community peace by enforcing Canadian Law. 

 

The basic training and skills required to do both are interchangeable and both professions attract outgoing, assertive individuals who are drawn towards physical activities. 

 

Police Officers are annually certified in,

• firearm competency,

• lawful use of force, and 

• addressing urban violent crime. 

 

Canadian Reservist’s training includes, 

• Firearms competency,

• rules of lawful engagement and 

• battlefield situational awareness.

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The same can be said for many peace officer positions, like game wardens, fishery officers, customs officers, coast guard etc. 

 

I believe there would be a great deal of interest in a full time career as a police/peace officer with an annual Military Deployment of 2 months per year.

 

For 10 months of a year the recruit has all the advantages and freedoms of a good permanent civilian career with an annual 8 week commitment to the military.

 

CAF will have fresh reservist troupes every 2 months to staff their outposts and other military requirements.

 

Bonus for Canadian Military

 

Police recruiting and training has for the past 40 years  

• addressed the CAF military hiring and retention issues of 

• equitably reflecting the communities they protect and 

• ensuring an inclusive non toxic work environment for all members.  

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Brief Overview of Implementation

 

September 2025,

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Only Municipal, Provincial, Territorial or Federaly funded organizations can hire HPMR members.

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Target is 4k to 6k per province & territory for 2025,

60,000 per year X 6  years = 360,000 HMMR by 2030 year end. 

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Target numbers to be adjusted by population and service demands from 2026 onward.

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• Sept. 2025, Provincial and Territorial policing organizations,

• will commence hiring and training men and women in “HPMR” program ( 4K to 6K per)

• as additional police officers for their jurisdictions as this allows

• uninterrupted police services upon HPMR staff military deployment.

 

This includes all Federal Agencies. 

• The R.C.M.P. and Canadian Coast Guard, 

• Canadian Boarder Service Agencies, 

• Fishery and Oceans Canada etc.

 

The Police Services and other agencies  

• written hiring criteria 

• will be pre approved by the Army, 

• ensuring only qualified police/reservists are hired.

 

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The new recruits can do their police training and jobs for 12 months or more before going into basic military training, giving the Army time to reorganize and accommodate large numbers of reservists.

 

The HPMR positions, require a ratio of 80% time spent working as a police officer and 20% of their time as Military Reservist training and on deployment.

 

This 80/20 ratio addresses the major recruitment road blocks of attracting, retaining and housing of large numbers of quality reservists.

 

For 80% of their time recruits will enjoy the perks of civilian life. 

 

Live in their own homes, raise families, coach baseball/ hockey leagues while improving the safety of their communities through public law enforcement services.  

 

Vacation weeks would be only taken during police service time.

 

If the candidate no longer wishes to serve in the military, their employment with the police service will be terminated regardless of years of service. This does not preclude the Police Service from rehiring the individual on their payroll.

 

Federal Governments Military Budget (Nato commitment of 2% of G.D.P. 60$ billion dollars) will annually transfer all costs of wages, benefits, training and equipment to the employing Police Service for the duration of their careers.

 

Retirement plans, health benefits and any injuries sustained while either on police or military deployment will be covered as per their relative Police Service Policies, to simplify any compensation required.

 

This provides speed and clarity for an injured officers path to recovery and accommodation.

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Holy Cow, that’s allot of cops?

 

For brevity, in 34 years at Toronto Police Service, I did, I supervised, I reviewed, I audited, I planned , I analyzed, and I budgeted for, front line uniform and detective police services. 

 

I also was responsible for several initiatives currently used by many police services in Ontario.

 

For five years I was responsible for all operational procedures for front line duties. ( I’m still monitor the TPSBoard’s agenda,  that’s 50 plus years)

 

So with that background I can reasonably state that in general, Policing particularly in the GTA is significantly understaffed to effectively reduce crime in any meaningful way. 

 

In addition the Municipalities will never be able to afford Police Services large enough to reduce the steady flow of crime.

 

The fact that after 6 years of international organized crime

• sponsored theft of cars,

• with all it’s related violence and economic impacts, 

• is still prevalent today considering the 

• roughly 12$ Billion dollars annually spent on policing in Ontario. 

• (50$ to 60$ Billion over 6 years)

 

Kinda proves my point!

 

The 44 Ontario Municipal Police Services, OPP and RCMP are not inept, they are simply overwhelmed with demands for services and lack the resources.

 

That is why today, a life threatening 911 call on average takes 17 minutes in Peel and 22.6 minutes for a Toronto officer to attend the scene. 

 

Response times that render their services useless.

 

Serious criminal occurrences such as theft of $10,000 or less are now self reporting on line or phone in reports, no police attendance. 

 

This was not the case a few years ago.  

 

It is even worse than that. 

 

Due to a lack of detectives teams, the majority of reported crimes, that the police do attend, don’t receive any or little proper investigation. These reports are used for statistics and are of little use in a criminal investigation.

 

So how would the Toronto Police use an additional 5000 new HPMR recruits over the next 5 years?

 

When you factor in 17 police stations, each with 5 platoons of uniform officers staffing cars 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, an additional 1,000 officers makes a small but important impact to reduce the 22.6 minutes of waiting for police help.

 

Some simple math.  17 division X 5 platoons = 85 platoons.  85/1020

 

That’s just 12 officers per platoon , which should equate to 6 additional police cars on the road to answer emergency calls. 

 

But that’s not the case. 

 

On average officers have 

• 4 to 5 weeks off for holidays, 

• 5 days off for sick, 

• 10 to 15 days of mandatory training etc.

 

So a rough calculation on the back of a “Tim Hortons Napkin”, the 12 officers might be down to a solid 8 officers, but there is more.

 

Remember we talked about little to no follow up investigation to reported crimes!

 

Each Division, ( Police Station) has a general detective office, which is staffed by teams of detective/ detective constables, usually working 3 shifts of days, afternoons and nights. 

 

And again taking into account holidays, mandatory training, sick days and for detectives many days in courts, the detectives actual hours for followup investigations are minimal.

 

So my point is, to actually investigate and catch criminals instead of just reporting their crimes, some of the senior constables on each platoon would be transferred over to detective offices to do more investigations. 

 

And of course, it’s more complicated than that when you factor in the understaffed specialized detective squads like, Hold up, Homicide, Sexual Assault, Drug Squads, Fraud Squads, Forensic Services etc.

 

And that is the basic template for all police services across Canada, a balance of priorities and you do the best you can with what you got.

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Funding for HPMR program  

 

Investing in people or battery plants, which is better for the  Canadian economy?

 

The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux, 

• report of September 2023, 

• Concludes it will take  20 years to recover in taxes, the  28.2$ billion dollars subsidies for EV battery production in Ontario. 

 

Note: that was pre tariff war which now may extend the recovery years to 25/30 years, my opinion. 

 

The HPMR program is an investment in people and a more direct injection into local economies with a much shorter pay back time.

 

The 2022 Fraser Institute Report estimated that 45% of a family’s annual income is recovered in taxes. The other 55% supports local business. .

 

By using this formula, the government gets back 45% of any government employee wage within 12 months and the other 55% supports their local businesses with purchases of food, clothing, homes and services.

 

To be clear, I am not an economist but providing decent wages to workers, so that they can support businesses seems to be the best use of our limited tax dollars.

 

It appears to be a more organic safer way to grow an economy versus pushing industries that may help the economy/worker 20 to 30 years in the future. 

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