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While I think our whole acquisition and licensing regime in Canada, especially for long-guns is overly and unnecessarily strict, restrictive and overblown I certainly don’t advocate for or want the crazy free-for-all that is the US.

While I believe nuclear powered subs are ideal for Canada, especially as far as the Arctic is concerned I just don’t see it happening….especially due to cost, the various treaties and agreements notwithstanding. On top of all that the US certainly doesn’t want us having the potential ability to...

The treaties I referenced aren’t that easy to find…requires some searching and reading…especially the 1959 one.

Use the 1958 and 1959 dates and various search parameters and you can find other references on both treaties. Basically, without US agreement we aren’t getting nuke powered boats…..unless we want to try and get them from the Russians or China.

No, there is another treaty that impacts the French nukes too. Plus a treaty directly between Canada and the US that denies us nukes.

Unfortunately the only way we get SSNs if the US agrees to waive existing treaties that give the US a veto over Canada getting the required nuclear technology for subs. Reagan was sort of willing but at the end of the day Canada having SSNs is viewed negativly vis-a-vis the arctic and NW passage...

I doubt the US would ever agree to that.

There was an interesting article some months ago explaining some of the advantages of the new Spanish sub over the German subs…..my memory is a bit foggy but alot of them seemed to be about better power generation and crew environmental redundancy as well as longer cruise ability. I’ll have to...

It always comes back to the same things……over-regulation, excessive levels of red-tape and badly designed, overly-complex government to client U/I …….all of which negatively impacts business,finances and creativity.

Wow…that surprises me..😂😂

Lambs to the slaughter.

It’s quite disappointing to me how many westerners, ie: Americans,Canadians and Europeans actually love this level of technology. Here’s another one….in China, in the major urban centres at least, you can physically pay for products in shops using just a scan of your palm-print if you happen to...

The point is to encourage private investment to build out high quality infrastructure for their benefit…Canada ends up with the transport and built out urban area. The tax income comes later.

How about a complete tax-holiday from all provincial and federal income taxes for all companies and workers, including subs, during construction phase of all roads railways and port infrastructure as well as during the first 10 years of actual operation of the completed facilities.

We really don’t want to get caught up in that quagmire.

Thank you…that is the sort of answer and clarification I was looking for.

Just a point of discussion….not n any particular order of importance 1) to keep the design and development guys in work until the next major project, 2) to be able to open the ice for our frigates/destroyers during ice-season 3) to augment the CCG/RCMP patrols in the arctic during ice-season.

Could any of the new icebreaker designs be tweaked up to actual naval standards to give the RCN a true armed-icebreaker capability….and would it be worth doing??

And these are the people Trump wants to make nice with while throwing Zelensky and the Ukrainians under the bus.