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Your Tag: Announcement Date: Wining Bid Number of Subs MacNav63 July 13 SK 12

Add in parliamentary secretaries and committee chairs and really, the odds of getting some post on top of just being an MP are pretty good in Canada.

Oh the rumbling and mumbling is there for sure, but the Liberal caucus has never given itself the powers available under the Reform Act so they have no formal mechanism to do anything about it. Also, it's one thing to be disgruntled on the backbenches of a party with a majority government one...

It's an interesting reflection on the differences between our two "Westminster" approaches to parliament. Over the course of the 14 years from David Cameron's election in 2010, the Tories ran through 5 PMs, despite having majority governments for most of that time. Canada hasn't seen anything...

Honestly, if I was advising them on comms Farnborough wouldn't be part of the discussion because I'd be wanting to put some space in between the two announcements. To me the subs decision is just a clear win no matter which one they choose. Sure there will be disappointed lobbyists and their...

If I was a betting man, I wouldn't bet on it happening in the next two weeks. Joly is only in China until the 23rd in order to be back in her riding for the 24th, Fete nationale (aka Saint-Jean-Baptiste). The PM will also likely be in QC then too. That leaves four business days until Canada Day...

RE the subs, definitely an all hands on deck announcement by the PM with a backdrop of McGuinty, Joly, Fuhr, and regional development ministers. It's an event, not just a release. My bet would be Esquimalt with one of the Victoria's as a backdrop regardless of who wins (photo op out West more...

Scathing... https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trumps-iran-deal-is-a-national-humiliation/ Andrew Coyne Published 45 minutes ago The reviews have not been kind. “A disaster.” A “catastrophe.” The “worst strategic blunder the U.S. has made post-World War II.” Garry Kasparov, the...

And at the risk of compounding the heresy, assuming there we buy the full 12, could a split fleet also not make some sense. The vertical launch capability of the SK boats might be a valuable strategic asset but not one that we need for a all 12 boats or for patrolling our own approaches?

Everything is relative...

Knew a guy who worked in his office when he was MND and it was always my impression that the CAF lost out when he lost his seat.

Thanks for that. And I guess, at least through the 80s with the Rendezvous exercised the army was also at least engaging in the mass movement of brigade level formations, if not to Europe at least across the continent.

Serious question, but given the number of times I've read the phrase "the CA needs to decide what it wants to be when it grows up" on other threads (apologies to @FJAG and @KevinB but not sure which of you coined it) has there ever been a time since the Second World War when the army articulated...

Hangar is still there isn't it, or at least there is something where they were. Also I believe the origin of the name "Alert Road." I knew there had been CF-100s stationed at Upland but hadn't realized the Voodoos had been as well.

Checked the Wiki (FWIW) and apparently the Voodoos were originally stationed at Comox, North Bay, Uplands (which I didn't know), Bagotville and Chatham, but were withdrawn from North Bay and Uplands due to budget cuts in 1964, so likely before the nukes were deployed. It seems the Voodoo didn't...