Recent content by Navy_Pete

And in no surprise, China is now talking openly about taking Taiwan over, which is kind of a no brainer if they see Russia invade Ukraine and get rewarded.

Basic vetting wouldn't have necessarily caught this, it was also years ago, and only being brought up again as a distraction. There was the required oversight and accountability for disbursing the funds, and there is no actual suggestion that CMAC didn't deliver what they were contracted to do...

At what point did the LPC get involved exactly? This happened under a Liberal MP, but I'm not sure what you think would happen differently if it was a CPC minister. Companies put in proposals, you review the proposals, and go from there. Do you expect staffers to ask for all their social media...

The GoC has all that data; there is a performance management system, similar to PARs, which tracks all the employees on probabation, talent management plans and performance improvement plans, as well as releases. What they rejected, if you read the article, was publishing that publically, which...

How exactly do you think government operations work? The original grant would have been approved by some lower level staff, then paused after someone sent a copy of the private tweets to the Minister, the department paused the remaining grants. If CMAC had fulfilled their end of the grant, there...

That's a pretty shitty accusation with very little publicly available, but what little there is points to that not being the case. I think you can do better than that.

Is this really a conflict, and not an unprovoked, illegal invasion? This is essentially bullying, but at an international scale with abuse of authority as Commander in Chief and a side of war crimes.

Not really, just different people not talking to each other, plans getting delayed, etc. Normal things I guess for organizations this size and budgets that big, but at the same time we also put way more faith in class society recommendations and ignore internal SMEs, who take into account what...

A lot of them were requirements and all identified during SHOL trials on HDW; (along with over 4000 other defects). They were accepted anyway for political reasons, not changed in the subsequent builds for schedule/cost reasons, and the RCN didn't really care about it until the RCAF air...

It's much stupider than that; there were issues with the lighting, comms, fire fighting, refueling and all kinds of other things that didn't actually work on delivery.

I think the clear cut forests, giant open scars from mines, and poisoned rivers and water ways would strongly disagree. The stock market prioritizes short term profit and growth, not sustainability so that mentality is largely gone unless privately owned, and really depends on the personality of...

Sure, but you can't cut the PS while doubling or tripling the DND spend, and also doubling the number of CAF personnel. Lot of injection into local economies just from having the bases there, plus the various private jobs that directly support CAF activities, plus intermittent things like...

The frequently seem to include the CAF in there; if they hit the numbers they are talking overall government employment will spike another 30ish%. Similarly need a big growth in DND, PSPC and a few other supporting agencies to hit and sustain 2%+ and maintain all this fancy equipment. Would...

Not sure who any of the dippers are, but if any of them are common sense unionist types they might be able to actually get some things done if they jump ship, so might not just be CPC. On the flip side you might get salty Gildebrault go independent or join the Greens so could be a wild ride...

Good, their childish proposed amendment on the pipeline statement was embarrassing, and a missed opportunity to proposed something that would actually get accepted. Hope their 15 seconds of getting engagement from rabid supporters was worth it, they seemed destined to keep losing.