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Funny I wonder how a large business/ corporation works when a person who does not know the job runs the show. Advocating is one thing, understanding what you are advocating for is for more important. For most staff Officers it is another check in the box until they move onto another job...

I agree. There are a couple of small companies in Canada doing this. With limited funding from our Government. You need tot right people in charge who know the importance of such work to be calling the shots. How do you figure irrelevant. Lets put a person with little interest and or little...

Lots is the answer, Every Platoon should have this capability, especially in todays environment. Company HQ should have enough to cover a reasonable interlocking coverage. Each Platoon should have their own. Start with 300 systems and go from there. use the old Bison Hulls. TAPV even the...

Companies have been using drones, EW, digital cams and the whole gantlet of various spying equipment for companies espionage for many years. The tech has been out there for a long time. The funny thing is private companies have been protecting themselves from drone attacks (surveillance) for...

They were not startups. These are professional security companies who invented some researched, programed and used EW and drone tech for security before the Military even new they needed it. Way before Ukraine had a thought of drone warfare. It was kind of neat seeing directional jamming so they...

They don't have to, all they have to do is buy them up. I would like to see that on one hand, but I would prefer if foreign companies were not owners of our major infrastructure.

There are a few civilian companies in Canada who have/had invested into EW and Drone tech. At the time the military balked at them. Now we hopefully those companies will pass on their experience and tech from their lessons learned.

Canada has a large enough manufacturing base across all fields to make things actually happen. Why we don't actually makes things happen in defence is the disappointing aspect. The question we should be asking is why we don't make it happen? You can say we don't have the skilled welders to...

The downside of the budget is they do not have the money, expect things to be cut, downsized or ignored. My opinion is they do not expect to be in power for a full term and will hand this mess off to the other party. Then spend 4 years pointing fingers on why the budget does not work.

I would think you might be surprised. Lol if that's your view. What does Cadets and Scouts have that Hockey Canada doesn't...... a direct connection to the military... Both provide direct skills that should be built upon to encourage enrollment either fulltime and or part time military service...

That is one proposal that was made a couple of years ago.

They could use "any other similar instrument to which Canada is a part". Yet they are having a hard time recruiting to full strength. When the Cadet program has more members then the Reserves, Scouts Canada has more members then our Reserve Force does. I actually don't want to see this. But...

I went through this in the late 90's then again in early 2000's. Times were much different and some attitudes were even more so. I witnessed many acts of discrimination, sexism and the whole gauntlet of what SHARP was trying to eliminate. But it made things worse, the actual bad people went...

Second to "Emergency" is "or if considered desirable in consequence of any action undertaken by Canada under the United Nations Charter or the North Atlantic Treaty, the North American Aerospace Defence Command Agreement or any other similar instrument to which Canada is a part". Could Canada...

I think most are lucky to forecast what color boots they are going to wear let alone up to and past coffee break.

Depends on the way it was approached to them I guess. Direct response to natural disasters, maybe have local resources to respond to floods and such. Might be attractive if a province could become sovereign and directly collect and use their own taxes to pay for their own resources/ services...

Why would it not be? How did they incorporate the Coast Guard into DND? They used a OIC. Since the Milita act was absorbed into the NDA. I wonder if a province could stand up their own Defence Force? If not then what would stop a province form standing up a Security Force and arming them...

16 1(c) in the NDA might allow a stretch to be done. We might need a revamp of the Militia Act of 1868 But they just included the Coast Guard into the mix, how long until BC Ferries is included? 😅

Depends on what you would consider a replacement crew. Basic Training through to operating a tank. Then if you were to look at the full manufacturing capacity of Canadian industry, I think you are selling them short.

Anything built for the Canadian Government has a higher cost, history has shown they will cost overrun, delay and cancel projects as they get going. For a supplier to tool up, manufacture they need a definite assurance their investment wont be negated by project cancellation or interference...