Recent content by Brad Sallows

The Chinese don't need to level anything. They will just remind the central Canadian establishment how much of its money is still tied up there.

I am wondering if the kinds of missions suitable for air transportable forces in current environments are mostly below the scale of conflict which requires a lot of artillery.

Emotional outbursts are a symptom. The problem is the tendency of majorities to believe everyone else should be just like they are, and to treat everything they want as something to be imposed nationally. "Why do those people need that?" and "Everyone should have this". Overall: "OK, we...

"Alberta separatism" may be a partisan issue. "Quebec separatism" may be a partisan issue. "Separatism" is not. The colour and direction of partisanship arises from the underlying politics and political structure of the country - another manifestation of longstanding east-west disconnects and...

Was it ever a partisan issue? Except for the PQ and BQ, which parties federally or provincially that can win enough seats to have official party status in their respective legislatures have sided with separatists?

In a limited number of locations. It doesn't sound like "nationalized" election laws if it doesn't cover the entire country. It does sound like state governments continuing to do their thing, but adhering to some sort of common framework, aimed at districts or perhaps entire states that...

Democrats have already been at 1 through 7 for a while. They don't get a pass on their self-serving uses of public employment and appointments, media, executive authority, illiberal actions against freedoms of expression, disparaging and violent rhetoric against political opponents, open...

Which I was happy to point out at the time. Not on this particular issue (although Hans Spakovsky disagrees), but it's not the first time a president has mused about doing something unconstitutional, let alone following through. What the "ordinaries" have done doesn't muster additional outrage...

He isn't the only one. Back when it was perceived that state control of elections helped Republicans at inconvenient times, a lot of people opined that a single federal system ought be imposed.

Too bad there's no equalization program to distribute some of the windfalls to those who have none.

The arctic commitment (facilities) should be at higher latitudes than Churchill. If the same final (seasonal) sea leg is shared by all routes, it doesn't make a lot of sense to go overland to Churchill and then by sea, rather than directly by sea from the St Lawrence.

The "medium cavalry" discussion often starts to sound like a "tank destroyer" discussion. They are both fundamentally about particular kinds of fights. The general overview suggests the particular tasks, which suggest particular capabilities and tactics, which suggest organization and...

He puts it in his usual antagonizing ways, but it seems to just be reminding local authorities that they are responsible for cleaning up local messes; and, if they will not or cannot protect federal property, his administration will provide forces to do so. Maybe protests are expected to...

That's possible. Another possibility is that he has reached a point where he can really give form to his ideas, that he knows it, and that he is playing his cards carefully without losing sight of the aim.

FPTP gives tyranny of the minority; parties rarely win majorities. Almost any of the envisioned reforms would produce a tyranny of the majority based on an approximately permanent coalition of 2 of the 3 major federal parties.