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Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

In terms of the new BOREALIS, why not just expand DRDC?

Most successful defence export nations are underpinned by extensive domestic military expenditure on those very systems that are then exported. Is the LPC intent to massively expand the CAFs procurements and move towards a continuous production model vs boom and bust?
 
MilEME09 said:
Quick search has 200 recorded incidents with the P320, with over 2.5 million units sold since 2014. That's an incident rate of 0.008% over all for the model. With that low of incident rate that's not even a QC failure. It's all about optics, is it bad or are enough people amplifying the incidents to give it a worse reputation then it is?
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Those numbers are significantly lower than what I have seen.
 
Fabius said:
In terms of the new BOREALIS, why not just expand DRDC?

Most successful defence export nations are underpinned by extensive domestic military expenditure on those very systems that are then exported. Is the LPC intent to massively expand the CAFs procurements and move towards a continuous production model vs boom and bust?
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Because DRDC is defence focused and works with current technology usually on practical applications and evolutions of current technology. Example flight deck management system using simple computers and accelerometers, new ways to organize/make portable EW, heat vests to improve fine motor skills for cold weather medical care and other things like that.

BOREALIS would likely be "big ideas" focused, AI, quantum, other things like that. Maybs not defence focused even though those things have a lot of defence implications. Probably like DARPA or similar.

Its all imaginary right now, but yah overlap with DRDC could be an issue, so the mandates need to be clearly written out so they don't overlap.

Good question!
 
Underway said:
Not my kids school. They all know about Vimy Ridge.

I think the problem isn't the schools, they cover the topics and provide the information. Kids that are interested grab onto it and do more research.
The problem is the US saturated culture, that doesn't tell Canadian stories. There is no real Canadian equivalent of Saving Private Ryan, The Pacific, Greyhound, Hurt Locker, Platoon, Midway, 1917, All Quiet on the Western Front, Dunkirk and the list goes on.

I was thinking about this quite a bit since the current troubles started. Not telling our own stories with big budgets and proper cinematic and/or international relases should be something we should aspire too.
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Unfortunately, the best that Canadian cinema could come up with was Paul Gross's "Passchendaele" and "Hyena Road".
 
Underway said:
Oddly enough the thing I like the most about this (because we have to wait to see what happens) is the organizational names don't have Canada in the acronyms. Thank god! Why does everything have to have Canada in it. CRA, Canadian Space Agency, Health Canada etc...
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To counter-balance everything in the US that has National in it?

Maxman1 said:
The Devil's Brigade was probably the closest we've gotten.
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Ah yes. That benchmark of accuracy that starts out with an American actor speaking some unknown accent after a long march in (from nowhere apparently) to pipes playing at about 120 BPM.
 
lenaitch said:
Ah yes. That benchmark of accuracy that starts out with an American actor speaking some unknown accent after a long march in (from nowhere apparently) to pipes playing at about 120 BPM.
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And everyone wearing ties with Battledress, the OC in Tropical Service Dress, and claiming to be veterans of the Dunkirk evacuation.
 
Halifax Tar said:
Canada has oodles of material to make a great war movie out of. Our problem is we expect other people to do it for us.
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The problem isn't that we don't have the tales of derring-do, it's that to have the quality of production that rivals the Hollywood versions takes money which would be expected to be recouped at the box office. And like having a homegrown armaments industry, the market for a Canadian story told by Canadians is hampered by limited demand in the international (especially the USA) marketplace. That's not to say there isn't the talent (creative and technical) in Canada. Just look at the number of American productions that are filmed in Canada. Over the past several decades, they've come North attracted by favourable exchange rates, lower wages and government tax credits and that has helped develop a Canadian film and TV industry. But it is an industry that, at present, is tied to the Americans just like auto manufacturing. I'm awaiting for the White House funny farm to come out with tariffs that will try to force more Hollywood and less Hollywood North.
 
Blackadder1916 said:
The problem isn't that we don't have the tales of derring-do, it's that to have the quality of production that rivals the Hollywood versions takes money which would be expected to be recouped at the box office. And like having a homegrown armaments industry, the market for a Canadian story told by Canadians is hampered by limited demand in the international (especially the USA) marketplace. That's not to say there isn't the talent (creative and technical) in Canada. Just look at the number of American productions that are filmed in Canada. Over the past several decades, they've come North attracted by favourable exchange rates, lower wages and government tax credits and that has helped develop a Canadian film and TV industry. But it is an industry that, at present, is tied to the Americans just like auto manufacturing. I'm awaiting for the White House funny farm to come out with tariffs that will try to force more Hollywood and less Hollywood North.
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I think beyond that, the culture of the arts in Canada(particularly public funded) has a very hard left stance on things like the military and war. Which would result in a Canadian movie about Canadian military actions being an anti-war, and anti-military movie.
 
Blackadder1916 said:
The problem isn't that we don't have the tales of derring-do, it's that to have the quality of production that rivals the Hollywood versions takes money which would be expected to be recouped at the box office. And like having a homegrown armaments industry, the market for a Canadian story told by Canadians is hampered by limited demand in the international (especially the USA) marketplace. That's not to say there isn't the talent (creative and technical) in Canada. Just look at the number of American productions that are filmed in Canada. Over the past several decades, they've come North attracted by favourable exchange rates, lower wages and government tax credits and that has helped develop a Canadian film and TV industry. But it is an industry that, at present, is tied to the Americans just like auto manufacturing. I'm awaiting for the White House funny farm to come out with tariffs that will try to force more Hollywood and less Hollywood North.
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In order for a movie to be a financial success in the large US market, it needs to be a US story and/or contain known US actors.

Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk was, in my opinion, a damned fine movie by a known, established producer. It only got about 35% of its revenue from the US market. Not a US story and no US celebrities. Darkest Hour and Imitation Game were roughly the same.
 
Blackadder1916 said:
The problem isn't that we don't have the tales of derring-do, it's that to have the quality of production that rivals the Hollywood versions takes money which would be expected to be recouped at the box office. And like having a homegrown armaments industry, the market for a Canadian story told by Canadians is hampered by limited demand in the international (especially the USA) marketplace. That's not to say there isn't the talent (creative and technical) in Canada. Just look at the number of American productions that are filmed in Canada. Over the past several decades, they've come North attracted by favourable exchange rates, lower wages and government tax credits and that has helped develop a Canadian film and TV industry. But it is an industry that, at present, is tied to the Americans just like auto manufacturing. I'm awaiting for the White House funny farm to come out with tariffs that will try to force more Hollywood and less Hollywood North.
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I think the idea that Americans wouldn't watch it is a red herring. International audiences watched Dunkirk. And with online streaming lots of other countries stories are making it out to the world.

We have Letterkenny as our most recent success. I think there are some great Cdn directors out there that could make a movie like this work.
 
I would not be surprised if there is a decline in interest for patriotic American hero movies across global markets. That could then create opportunities for other nations to get more screen time internationally for their national stories.
 
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