Recent content by childs56

How about we ask for the US's half for the Gordie Howe Bridge and call it even. Most of those industrial offsets were specialized Canadian Companies who made things others did not and or could not.

If it took a Mechanic 10 years to be very competent that means they are not doing very well. Probably looking for a teaching job or joining the military in another trade. Guess that's a win.🤔 I usually see a person by the time they are in their third year doing pretty good and by the time their...

Those are not a specific D9 Cat shop. they are a general heavy duty shop who can work on a variety of equipment including the Cat C9 in the Lavs 6 has installed. The trick is to build an expieranced group of maintainers who are familiar with the equipment, in time of actual war we can use...

Hopefully they have an increased budget to have mobile mechincs called, have their credit card in file at the local heavy equipment parts supplier and third party food and other supplies delivered. 🤣

I don't know many if any Heavy duty Mechanics in may area who make less than $120,000 a year most are in the $150 plus a year. It is funny reading some of the responses where people think Military ground equipment is some specialized trade that needs extra time to become effective to maintain...

Mapquest still works pretty good for pictures of the said areas.

The Consultation was originally done and final phases, Waiting on approval. When the Feds, Provincial and Municipal Governments kept adding to the list of requirements then things fell apart. Then the government swooped in to save the day and voila things were approved that previously were...

Private projects should not become public infrastructure. That is what we would call socialism.

:unsure: And environmental roadblocks, BC government added requirements along with the Federal government added more requirements. Don't forget the City of Burnaby's permits. Magically all got approved or set aside after the fact. They actually did things properly. Were in the final stages of...

Understanding during some of the most recent air operations the US was using Communication relay planes to communicate from F35s to other aircraft aka bomb trucks. No different then what C&C aircraft are designed to do. There was never a plan for the F35 to communicate with every aircraft...

What are you talking about? Building a pipeline to ship oil is a good investment. Because companies have a product that needs to be shipped to a client. How to do that efficiently is through pipelines. What is not efficient is dealing with Canadian bureaucracy. The on again off again process...

What other minor and major factors are contributing to those slowing business plans? Were they slowing prior to all the separation talk or started after? Calgary has had a rough go since 2009/2010 with Oil collapse but has made enormous strides in the Tech industry.

I have not seen anything in regards to talk of separation causing issues with investment. In fact it is a bit of the opposite. What I keep hearing over and over again is uncertainty of what the carbon pricing program is going to cost along with other federal and provincial hoops one must jump...

What's better?

But they have Colt Canada. What more do they need?:unsure::ROFLMAO: