Recent content by Navy_Pete

So we shouldn't have a safe, functional and secure residence for the leader of our country to live in and conduct official business? That's absurd. Noticed Pierre isn't complaining about getting free residence in Stornoway, or the large amounts he spends as leader of opposition doing business...

Aside from London, BVI, Cayman Islands and Bermuda are huge tax havens, as well as the Isles of Jersey, Mann and Guernsey. A huge amount of the laundering was also via real estate, so dumping it at a high point if you expect it to lose value isn't a surprise.

What are you on about now? The US doesn't want us to be in an economic union, they want to raid our natural resource cupboard for themselves, while giving us nothing. EU countries are still sovereign entities and equal parties, the US wants us to be their gimp. The UK also had an outsized...

No, but did create enough impediments to the delivery of services as well as their remaining goods which previously had unrestricted access to one of the largest economies on the planet. It was an act of self harm. The only people that seemed to benefit from it were the criminals and...

Thatcher took over shortly after the UK joined the EU and while the 70s and 80s were generally volatile that's when their whole banking system was restructured and became a huge part of the UK economy (and conversely manufacturing dropped off a lot, and Thatcher went hard over on miners and...

I agree, and think it will keep rolling, especially on work already in progress and things needed as part of the projected growth. The 2nd bit of my comment was more of a bit of cynical experience on the NSS side where the parties needed their 'brand' on it, but for both Harper and Trudeau it...

The NSS was awarded by Harper, implemented under Trudeau, and continuing under Carney and whoever takes over. Momentum generally wins, and on programs that big there are usually penalties big enough no one wants to pay out the same value to get SFA in return (like the EH 101s). I'm sure there...

Just as an aside, the major shipyards in NSS aren't actually allowed to bid for these. That is a deliberate contract requirement intended to ensure that smaller stuff that a lot of yards that didn't qualify for the NSS would still have access to work, and not compete with the heavily subsidized...

lol, the 250 celebration is now canceled, with it going to be a Trump hero worship rally, and a UFC event that is now banning even the normally MAGA, gun toting rednecks like Sean Strickland for criticizing Israel. Fox News just is ignoring the cancelation and criticism from right wingers, so...

Why? There were a number of upgrades that they would have done under their NSS bid that haven't been implemented, and they keep getting work anyway, so doesn't seem to be any driving reason to modernize and repair the yard. Especially if they get cost plus contracts; that actually...

PSPC still uses PWGSC in contracts and other official forms where things like FAA apply, so it's a weird situation where they acknowledge it isn't the legal name of the department, but probably don't want to have to change all the acts, laws, regulations etc that all grant them the various...

To a certain extent, but there are plenty of jobs that take years off your life on way or another (underwater welder comes to mind) so at least it was properly compensated. Plus as mentioned there was actually a lot of PPE as well as other controls in place to minimize exposure, so much less...

So just straight up overt prejudice then? They also declared the press office a SCIF, because apparently speech writers are regularly in there with classified info, so seems like they just admitted they regularly disregard secure document handling (and also have no idea what a SCIF is).

Some places openly acknowledge that; people that worked at the coke ovens in Stelco got extra time towards their pension (maybe 1.5 years per year) so they could retire earlier, on the assumption the job took years off their lives (which was valid). The other sad bit though is there are also a...

Yeah, and while I am onboard with his goal, and appreciated his passion and conviction, I don't think he ws the right personality to be in charge of any of it as he's too inflexible and seemed to lack all basic practical grounding. Sometimes having that big vision guy works out, but very...