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I know y'all don't love my opinions- but please hear me out on this. I think mass non-compliance is trap, and walking into it is major strategic mistake. Think about it, everything about the situation points to the government not wanting large scale compliance. Many individual compensation...

Can't watch right now, but Paul Wells just distributed a transcript. One hell of a speech. The man seems ready to at least try and meet the moment.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/carney-calls-on-middle-powers-to-band-together-in-world-economic-forum-speech/ar-AA1UzdIL?uxmode=ruby&ocid=edgntpruby&pc=LCTS&cvid=696fada94eb941af884e415fad66a338&ei=10 Bold call to action or thinly veiled call for help?

Why are you limiting to 24 month execution? If we return to normal overnight, a lot of the money we're talking about doesn't get spent. But more likely we're looking at a decade+ of instability, rearmament, and at best, lingering bad taste from 47. My thinking lies 100% in positioning Canada as...

There's too much money going to be spent by too many countries (including ours) looking for pragmatic non Red-White-Blue solutions to not be considering bold plays to lever our big ticket purchases

Yup. 5 GlobalEyes on order with options for 3 more (Sweden and Finland) 6 for Canada Denmark looking at 4 NATO looking @ at least 6 to replace the cancelled Wedgetail order Egypt, Germany, Greece, Saudi looking at unspecified numbers Promises of Pan Canadian supply chains... moving some the...

@ Altair - Prior to this Greenland move my hope was that we bought as many 35's as reasonably possible while still having the horsepower to pursue the Saab deal. The 35 is undeniably the better plane, and short of an absolutely worst case scenario we're not fully decoupling from the US...

A Carl G purchase doesn't put us in pole position to slide into an immediate and major vacuum that the US has created in the last year. An Aerospace partnership can. To quote the CBC article from last week: Of course, Gripen sales are far from a sure thing. But- Ukraine is looking. The Swiss...

The dots are so close close together (and have been written about, both on this board and in news articles) that refusal to connect them is in "lead a horse to water...." territory

Yes yes, your inability to see the forest for the trees is well established.

Re: Gripens It's pretty clear to anyone paying attention that the Saab engagement is about a whole lot more than 72 fighters. The current Greenland tension puts us in a really tough spot in implementing the broader play without pulling DJT's crosshairs onto us. Straddling the fence between...

Fun fact- doctrinally the concept of evolutionary creationism/ theistic evolution (as well as the geologic age of the earth, timeline of humanity) is officially accepted and endorsed by the vast majority of mainline Protestant churches as well as the Catholic church. evolutionary creationism/...

I think Zeihan underplays a significant aspect re- Flag on the map with respect to the Arctic/ NWP etc. He kind of hand waved that away by referencing the allowing of passage of Chinese ships as the only benefit- but there's a lot more to it than that. Having Greenland be US fundamentally...

You say this in jest, but the more... creative.. side of my brain says that if we were dealing with a rational actor with legitimate security concerns that there might be a path to de-escalation by offramping Greenland into in a 4th Canadian terrority (if they chose it), under NORAD, with...

Haha I suppose you could say that I'm evangelically opposed to evangelical minorities of all stripes trying to impose their will on the majority I do not care what you believe, in fact I at times envy the devout in their faith. I just wish y'all would accept that your beliefs are for you to...

I think Canadian stomach (projecting my own uncomfortable with myself views onto others) for a citizen insurgency would have a lot to do with US treatment and intention. If they just want us off the board as a geopolitical and military entity, they can accomplish that without unduly interfering...

In Ontario, actual in depth study of evolution is left to grade 11 and 12 university prep Biology. I think the big bang theory is left for grade 9 science? The real sticking point likely comes from things like geology, the rock cycle, and dinosaurs, at elementary ages. Basic core...

As has also been pointed out- the jobs are contingent on our order, but not likely not solely driven by producing our order From the article

I guess what I'm saying/asking is - is it the bare minimum of world class destroyers or was it the bare minimum of combatants for which said destroyer design was chosen for a consistent fleet for peacetime sustainment/ logistical/efficiency reasons Did they cut net surface capability? Or will...

Your numbers have no MCDV replacement/ CDC placeholder correct?