Recent content by Haggis

I believe the poppy design is copyrighted by the Royal Canadian Legion and they have jealously guarded it in the past.

Which part?

The classes at the CBSA college and Depot right now are "new" officers. Subtract that from your 1000 each, then add in normal attrition and see how many truly new boots on the ground you will actually end up with. The infrastructure challenges will be a huge limiting factor especially in the...

No. Half of that might cover attrition and not all with be front line officers.

There's more money allocated to the gun grab ($364M) than to increasing the number of BSOs ($196M) in FY 25/26. and $217M for guns and $96M for CBSA in FY 26/27.

Recent history suggests they will.

If it comes to that and I were Carney, I'd call the election for December 29th. "We didn't want an election, we tabled a reasonable budget that the opposition wouldn't support so it's their fault we're having this holiday election, not ours". Then watch the CPC votes tank!

A new one from Poly on X.com. The shooter, they acknowledge, was already under two firearms prohibition orders. They fail to mention he was never licensed and had an illegally obtained firearm. Nothing in C-21 would have prevented this murder.

I recall one in the late 1990's about RV parking at the former CFB Ottawa (Rockcliffe) that went CAF wide just before Christmas.

From the article: "When police arrived at the scene, the soldiers participating in the 'Marshal Power' exercise believed they were posing as 'hostiles' in the drill and fired practice ammunition at them. Cops responded with live ammunition, which resulted in one soldier being shot in the...

If held today, given the outsized LPC government backed influence of those small but vocal anti-gun lobby groups, it would be devastating to firearms users of all stripes, except for the first nations and criminals. Would the outcome be different under a CPC government? Yes, I believe it...

No, political parties are goal oriented and their goal is to stay in power.

On some issues, it is. In Canada, gun control is a perfect example. The agenda of a certain political party on that issue has been seized by a small group of overzealous lobby groups. The same could be said for the green energy zealots. Facts be damned, it's our way or the highway!!

Nobody is being forced out. It's your choice to leave at 35 YOS. One of my co-workers is 71 and still working the line at a major land border and loves their job.

The union head pointed out that the current throughput of the CBSA college barely meets today's attrition. As I mentioned in an earlier post, once the promised 25 and out pension kicks in, attrition will be even higher, making the dream of adding 1000 new officers even harder to attain and...