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3 PPCLI was based in Chilliwack in the 10/90 years - 94-97

Like so many leaders in the Western world? Canada aint that special - he bullies everyone.

Just saying

The root of your question is "what happens when the US decides that NORTHCOM can have the watch, and that NORAD is redundant?".

To further elaborate, on one fle I am familiar with, TB approved less than half of what Cabinet approved...18 months later. Taking a $250M cut to a Cabinet approved program is a problem......

In my experience, Cabinet approval to procure / spend is then run through the TB gauntlet - they are basically checking the Cabinet's work, as we are required to justify the expense, yet again, to costers.

I liked this quote / passage: Resentment of ... “the cosmopolitan liberals who claim to know . . . better than you” can’t become rocket fuel until a critical mass of voters feel they are governed by . . . well, by cosmopolitan liberals who claim to know better than you. A year’s worth of polls...

FTFY

From National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026 Section 1—Cyber threat from state adversaries: introduces the state cyber threat ecosystem and discusses the cyber threats to Canada from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) the Russian Federation (Russia) the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran)...

That is the essence of command. Sense, Make Sense, Decide, Act Sense-Make Sense-Decide-Act (SMDA) is at the heart of achieving the decision advantage required to effect CAF mission outcomes. In its simplest form, a decision cycle is simply a sequence of steps or activities used by an...

The paper is a means to an end, which is policy context and justifications for focused investment in critical capabilities. The PFEC came with a costed Statement of Joint Capability Deficiency (SOJCD) based on substantial DOTMIL-PF analysis. The SOJCD was unfortunately never released as it was...

Yes indeed she did. Having said that, the sentence was written in early 2024, before the shift in US policy, approach, desired end-states, methods etc. We are now at a point where no one in the West is sure if US is still an Ally, but Russia sure is.

As the CDS said in the Foreword to the PDC2: The CAF must be able to develop an effective PDC2 capability to be able to compete, contest, confront, and if necessary, defeat adversaries, or it risks becoming irrelevant to Allies. Any entity we compete with is essentially an adversary - this is...

How is US ambitions wrt Canada NOT "foreign adversarial influence"?

So....25% tariff on Canadian Aluminum, but none on Russia??? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-putin-outlines-aluminium-rare-earth-deals-with-us-2025-02-24/ Trump is bailing out Putin at the exact moment when his regime (and country) is about to collapse in ruins.

This is a very informative thread, and I learned a lot about feasability etc. I love the train, and take VIA 1 whenever going from Ottawa to TO, KTown, or Mtl - I love the service and the legroom. So I am sold on the idea of rail travel. I am not at all sold on the highest cost of all that...

But there is a breadcrumb trail:

This is very worrisome: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-zivo-trump-is-scamming-ukraine-allies-beware Our water is next

It does indeed appear to be unfair, and targetted, given that DOJ aso went after Apple and Meta (who settled with paynment of fines) as well as Walmart and SpaceX, who contested it, as indicated in this article from Bloomberg Law in Apr 24...

Ignore the peacekeeping laydown - but the rest of it is fascinating