Major-General, thus far, we have spent a great deal of time discussing the legitimacy of all this, which some believe to be dubious.
Now I would like to look at this from a legal standpoint. I have found comments by other soldiers that raised doubts in my own mind about how legal this is. I would like to discuss these with you. This is what one soldier said:
Providing opportunities for continued service in the public service to retain knowledge and expertise? Fine. It's a different organization. But playing a game where folks stay in the CF and draw a CF pension while continuing full-time service is, in a nutshell, breaking the law--the NDA defines regular force and reserve force, and by playing these games we're violating the spirit and letter of the law. Either change the law, or change the way we do business.
Another said this:
The "earned the pension" is a logical fallacy. CF members pay about 1/3 for their pension costs. No other employer would bring back full-time workers and pay them a pension to boot. The cost to government of those double-dippers is a significant drain.
Besides, from a legal perspective, the reserve force is those employed for other than continuing full-time service. These folks jump from full-time in the regular force to full-time in the reserve force--in my books, that's continuing full-time service--and therefore still regular force. An independent Office of the Auditor General review of the scam...would be illuminating.