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All of that will be additional housing stock? No reduction of existing housing?
Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC
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Can only offer a magic 8 ball answer, we'll have to wait and see. But I agree if the goal is a bigger CAF then these would be on top of replacing older housing.
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Sure, I can understand how one could read "left-leaning parties" and assume that I wasn't writing about NDP and Liberals in general but about Carney's government specifically.
The Liberal party has had two major factions/traditions/streams going back at least five decades. Carney is in the Martin/Turner/Martin stream. That stream will not control the party indefinitely. The other stream is the one that cheerfully announced its intention in 2015 to spend all the hard-earned fiscal improvements of the preceding 30 years of governments, and more. They'll be back.
I predict that the new bottom-line spending number will remain, but gradually money will be shifted out of defence and into other portfolios. Even as that shift happens its engineers will agitate for higher taxes "because of all that defence spending increase".
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For better or worse, all parties swing left or right based largely on the leader and not so much on the base.
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The two streams run deep. The Liberals are the most effective federal political party at hanging together, but even they couldn't contain the damage when Chretien was manoeuvred out by Martin.
It's partisan nonsense. Apparently right leaning parties are excused when they don't meet targets. Left leaning parties are never excused. And when one does (this one) the goalposts are moved to some foreboding about the future.
This shit has been going on forever:
It's damn nice to have a government trying to meet 2% immediately. And beyond that this government is taking national security more seriously across the board. First time ever I've seen serious discussions and actual staff effort on bigger issues like mobilization, defence of critical infrastructure, building critical stockpiles, identifying strategic gaps (right up to legislation), integrating all of government during escalation, how to mobilize society, industry, etc. I have literally never heard most of this discussed in my career. Let alone staff work and wargaming across government departments.
If Carney delivers on 25% of all the work going on, he'll never have to buy a beer in the vicinity of any base again. That's the level of staff work being pushed through.
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This is going to help with meeting quota next fiscal.
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Government of Canada reaffirms unwavering support for Ukraine four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion - Canada.ca
Today marks four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On this day, the Government of Canada reaffirms its steadfast support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.
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That will mark over 2,400 Roshels to Ukraine. That’s a huge number.This is going to help with meeting quota next fiscal.
Government of Canada reaffirms unwavering support for Ukraine four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion - Canada.ca
Today marks four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On this day, the Government of Canada reaffirms its steadfast support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.
It should also put us just over 100 LAV 6’s as well.
LAV 6 without turrets, right?
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Is that correct?
I wonder why the number of 66 . Could that be the 66 former Recce LAV's that are no more?
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This is actually the scope of ambition being looked at. It's a genuine, "How would we fight for years?" Question.
And as we go through this there's a realization government wide (not just CAF) of how daunting the task is.
It's all the way from basics (getting the CAL DAL right) to how would we manage strategic comms to mobilize society in the age of AI fakes, to how do we manage the mismatch between weeks to mobilize PRes to months to mobilize Strat/Mob Res to years to mobilize industry. All of this kinda stuff is actually being staff checked with outputs on everything from legislative changes proposed to procurement to changing force design to changing mandates of agencies. CCG moving to DND, for example, is just the first step in looking at underwater infrastructure protection. There's discussions, for example, on what legislative changes might be needed to enable more reserve service as part of creating that mobilization reserve and growing PRes substantially.
But it's like eating an elephant. This is easily a decade long project.
Yes and no.
There's two kinds of reactions to this. The cynic who is all, "This doesn't mean shit. It'll pass." And then there's people who find this challenge interesting and exhilarating. It's literally once in a lifetime to actually earn that "leading change" tick with something more than a meme.
But also just the mandate is forcing all kinds of government agencies to talk to each other. And pulling in allies too. I was at a discussion where some British exchange folks were explaining how critical infrastructure protection worked over there with so much of their security privatized and how they can can basically mobilize any UK flagged vessel on Lloyd's register. Etc. This is just not the kinda of thing anybody thought about during the GWOT era. Let alone invited allies over to give us advice on.
Of course this stuff will be slow rolling it out. This is just not the kind of work you can do by hitting send on a few emails. But it's meaningful and it's being done. And I think at least some of it will get operationalized.
Just an example of how the mandate can drive discussions.
Mandate: Create a mobilization reserve.
JAG: You'll need to get them job protection that actually works outside wartime. Has to cover the road to full conflict.
Log: How do we RSOM this many people quickly? Especially if we have to kit them at reception?
Movements: 5 C-17s and 9 330s ain't cutting it. What legislation do we need to mobilize our national airlines, railways and sea lines to put them into service?
Force Pro: How do we protect them and their families?
Industry: How quickly can they ramp to keep kitting forces as they transition from training into theatre? What do they need to do this?
Simple mandate like that. And there's like a staff of several dozen at SJS just working on stuff like this already. Some will get implemented. Some will get passed on to the government. Some to other OGDs. Etc. But ultimately, direction like this is a forcing function that drives work and thinking that probably hasn't been done in the CAF in decades.
Mandate: Create a mobilization reserve.
JAG: You'll need to get them job protection that actually works outside wartime. Has to cover the road to full conflict.
Log: How do we RSOM this many people quickly? Especially if we have to kit them at reception?
Movements: 5 C-17s and 9 330s ain't cutting it. What legislation do we need to mobilize our national airlines, railways and sea lines to put them into service?
Force Pro: How do we protect them and their families?
Industry: How quickly can they ramp to keep kitting forces as they transition from training into theatre? What do they need to do this?
Simple mandate like that. And there's like a staff of several dozen at SJS just working on stuff like this already. Some will get implemented. Some will get passed on to the government. Some to other OGDs. Etc. But ultimately, direction like this is a forcing function that drives work and thinking that probably hasn't been done in the CAF in decades.
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Flip side. It's also at times depressing and exhausting to come out of some of these meetings knowing how much more there is to do.
The biggest value here is a change of thinking. A good example from my own community. We gave some industry execs a clearance and they sit in at the General's CUB every week. This means industry now understands our needs at the tactical level. And given how new the domain is, they can sometimes explain things none of the uniforms can't.
Establishment of 7 Wing (Space)’s Commercial Integration Cell - Canada.ca
Today, Colonel Catherine Marchetti, Commander of 7 Wing (Space) and Director of the Canadian Space Operations Centre, alongside industry partners, announced the establishment of the Canadian Commercial Integration Cell (CIC) at 7 Wing (Space). Industry partners Mike Greenley, Chief Executive...
Can any of the ex-mil here imagine one of your Div Comdrs having a fully cleared industry rep at the CUB?
