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Good point. Also, don't know where you live, but one of the big complaints on the space side has been the insistence that everything is a project. But space doesn't work that away. We need a continuous pipeline, ergo a program. And there seems to be more openness on that idea now.

What's strange about it? Cut cheques and we get there. Few billion on pay and benefits. Few billion on capital projects like the recent HIMARS buy. Increase Vote 1. And we're there. And yes, there's probably going to be a bit of creative accounting like booking a lot of the new spending up...

And people would be praising him saying how great it is that we're finally moving towards 2% and that we have a new agency trying to sort out this procurement mess. Good ideas are good ideas. And I hope we go back to that. Conservative run UK was a cleantech champion that basically...

I can't understand partisanship. A win is a win. Regardless of where it comes from. And when issues start being defined in a partisan manner that's when they get lost. If a Liberal can never get credit for defence. Or a Conservative can never get credit for social programs, Then those...

Fair enough. And I remember the era when we supposedly had a pro-military government who were exceptionally tight fisted outside of IORs. For me politics is neither here nor there. I go by what I see in my corner of the world. And I'm seeing something I've never seen before. If that doesn't...

Lol. I'm waiting for somebody to try their luck and ask for a Japanese toilet.

Absolutely not saying they do. I'm just not a fan of the framing that one party is uniquely bad on this or that the other is substantially better.

I mean trying to steal your people. Not the budget. The war for talent is ramping as money flows in. On the project that I am working on, HR is now one of our top 3 risks. Our people keep getting poached as soon they get a bit of experience.

Define "soon". There's definitely stuff that is getting staffed up. And more announcements are on the way. But I do think there's probably some projects that might get slowed a few months as the new agency gets up to speed. Mixed bag. But as a rule of thumb, projects that have a team who...

At least the good part here is that you saw it coming and had your orders ready. There's a few dullards who are only catching on now. There's also a lot of people in the process who have gotten used to a light workload. Now there's a tsunami of work orders and they aren't used to it...

I think there's a bit of unique background here. He's the only Canadian who has served at an executive level of a P5 member. I think that gives him unique insight into the value of hard power, how military spending can bolster the economy, etc. Especially in a situation where certain sectors...

I'm hoping for this too. Especially if the economy starts slowing, it's an easy win to put construction workers back to work and improve the efficiency of the CAF too. My fear is that there isn't enough long term planning in a lot of branches to have projects that are ready to be funded...

Very, very true. The complaints and leaks are starting. And it's easy to see who is disgruntled by the change. I thought the leak about insufficient funding for poppies was telling.

Yep. And this wasn't even the case 6 months ago. I was literally arguing with ADM(IE) to get trees trimmed at an antenna site last fall. "Not business planned." It's unbelievable how much things have changed. I get that it will take time to translate down.

First time ever that Project Managers and Project Directors are being asked what is needed to move up IOC and FOC. Sometimes it's not money, it's governance. Briefs were being prepared for the new agency over the last few weeks. Fastest I've seen from announcement to stand up, in government...

If that's true, what does it say about the CPC that was at 1% spending when we had troops down range? I don't think apathy on defence is uniquely a Liberal trait in Canada, unfortunately. Both major parties usually have higher priorities. CPC with tax cuts. LPC with social spending...

This has been true for way longer than a decade. A few big ticket items getting purchased on IOR during Afghanistan doesn't mean procurement was vastly better before. Also, most of the Army's rust out started exactly in that time period when replacements were cut or whittled down to cheaper...

Low. I know some of you are just hung up on politics. But there's a clear push inside the institution to accelerate. And that hasn't before under any other PM in living memory. Maybe Carney is somehow manipulated out of this pro-military push. But for now this is going well.

Hence the creation of the Support Div.

That is already paid for and on standby 24/7.