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As far as changes of direction in Canadian policy, the appropriate time scale for confirmation is years, not weeks.

Authority delegated to government may be reclaimed if government fails to meet the responsibilities and standards of conduct for which that authority was delegated. Whether or not government at some point writes laws saying it ain't so, is irrelevant. Authority simply claimed by some people...

Yes, minister. I can guess what will prevail.

Monorail! (If it's a $100B government-sponsored project, it's going to be ugly.)

Ideally a refinery would be built at the terminus. PR might welcome one more than the lower mainland. There might also be valid reasons related to eggs in single baskets.

I can guess that the cost of having a salvage tug accompany each tanker for the contentious leg of its voyage would be bearable risk mitigation, even if the company owners have to buy and operate their own.

Overlooked in this entire sub-discussion is that if the threat is a fleet, you need to be able to overwhelm (saturate) their defences. One shot isn't going to be one kill, it's likely to be a splash somewhere between the launcher and the target.

This problem was largely solved by the time of the Battle of Midway, 1942, with cruder technologies and techniques. This is really reaching. If we're worried about single rounds of ammunition, we have much greater problems. Just as artillery has several orders of magnitude of flexibility...

By all that is holy, yes, please start there. I'm confident that whenever anyone does, all his worries about coastal invasions will go into the bin marked "scripts for movies like 1941". Fundamentally, navies avoid major operations within range of land-based aircraft during wartime unless the...

Commando raids... ...are only a problem if the authorities are psychologically too weak to do reasoned estimates. That might have been the case then; it shouldn't now. "Forced" is too strong a word.

Categorization of formations is independent of what the owners choose to call them. If it's on softskin wheels, it's "motorized". If it's under armour - tracked or wheeled - in the F ech, it's at least "mechanized". With increasing numbers of tanks, it's "mixed/combined" leading to "armoured"...

You may be right; I'm not going to research it; I'm not going to go hunting for lies; there's no value starting long lists of incorrect statements. They're easy to find. To back up a bit, much of what I read comes across as ignorance rather than lies. People, including people in government...

Waste of money. How realistic is the air and naval threat to Canada from anywhere except the US? And if someone else did come, they'd be at the end of a trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific lifeline. They come, maybe they land; at that point they're committed and they lose. I have never...

I can assure you that Democrats have also been flat faced lying CONSTANTLY. They don't have a moral advantage.

Of course. Both parties have been doing that for decades. Not sure there's a point to getting worked up when either of them does it, let alone one particular administration.

What are the lies? Republicans want a mostly clean CR for a very short extension and return to "regular order" (regular appropriations processes). Democrats want money for an extension of ACA subsidies due to expire, and money for restoration of prior Medicaid cuts. Those are the big issues...

But it's funny as hell. How many people (nations, and particularly their foreign policy wankers) think their particular cultural quiffs are something to be pressed on others by means of gifts, suggestions, speeches, etc?

Neither, but the Chinese less. I don't trust anyone. Hardly a month goes by without some information breach making the news, some of them in governments. Too much information is being collected, much unnecessarily. (Partly this is a hangover from migrations to computer-based systems, many...

Sure. But not right now. Let's see if we can get a firing battalion for the army going first.

I do not expect the administration to choose something they think works for them in international law and use it as a platform of convenience while acting in the way in which so many of them have been talking/writing.