Dubble;
You need to get some more info re the Canadian forces and your career plan at Etihad.
If you are accepted into the CF and manage to pass Officer Candidate School, PFS and Moose Jaw, you will probably have served almost three years before you get your wings. You then owe another five years of service.
You may be flying anything from a Griffon to a Hercules. In your first two tours you will not be flying the C-17 or the A310.
You will build around 3-400 flying hours per year. Now look at Etihads requirements. Are they accepting 2000 multi turbine pilots as F/O? No.
The CF is not the easy route you seam to think. It is a lot of very hard work
and wont get you where you want to be at age 30.
If you are lucky enough to get to serve in one of the most proffessional
armed forces in the world, you will probably have found a career that is way more rewarding than being an F/O at Etihad anyway. Do your 20 years get a pension then go fly for Transat or Sky service is my advice.
Good luck and remember the Air force moto. "Per Ardua ad Astra".
Lokk it up.
Cheers