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Yes. I personally know people who owned collections that were worth multi-hundreds of thousands of dollars that have now been rendered valueless because they can neither sell them to anyone other than the government (maybe) at a price that the government will decide to pay, nor can they take...

Hopefully, the RCN does not over complicate it and (more or less) just tweaks the design and buys again. Except more…

That is actually pretty funny. Well done.

QR&Os have never been amended to make S3-S1 legal ranks. Senior Officers/staffs who have never read the legal framework underpinning the CAF and who do not understand the notational symbols which specify who has authority (GIC, MND, CDS) over various orders is certainly an interesting flex…

I joined wearing it in 1985. It was ok. It actually fit me better and was of higher quality than the DEU stuff that followed, but I am a sample size of one.

Could be.

Yes.

Those are pretty big questions, aren’t they?

Yep

Yes. It would face a FISA review.

That would have been a power move in ‘38….

I am not an expert, but the little I have heard is that (some? Most? All?) Hereditary Chiefs refuse to participate in the imposed Indian Act system, to avoid giving it legitimacy.

We don’t, no. But, it is interesting that you brought that up. Am I guilty for the “sins” of my ancestor for emigrating to Canada? I am neither a “colonist”, nor a “settler”, either. I was born here.

There are too many AORs in NATO…said no one, ever.

And if those directions are contrary to the very fibre of Canada, what then? These are not inconsequential questions. For better or worse, we have now created a legal framework where blood quanta matters and your accident of birth gives you legally differential treatment in Canada (I am leaving...