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No, I'm not sure why we're arguing about this at this point if you agree that the costs are sunk costs, other than me being anal-retentive about terminology and we're talking about accounting terminology. You do not incur a cost until you have received the benefit of the services provided. If we...

Reg Force pay is a fixed cost, but you have not yet "incurred" it. You incur it as you use it. A sunk cost is a cost you've already incurred. If you have 10 troops with nothing to do tomorrow, their costs are not yet incurred. You can task them to do something. You can task them to participate...

Reg Force pay, and I cannot stress this enough, is not a sunk cost, not by definition or in reality.

To be fair, that is management's fault for abrogating their responsibilities to clerks. It is the approving authority that is supposed to determine your method of travel and itinerary, balancing out these factors. The non-clerk management have determined they are "too busy" to do their jobs and...

I can't speak to the specific example being used above, but "transfer pricing," which is when different divisions of the same corporation, or sometimes subsidiary corps that all belong to the same parent corp, is a big issue in proper managerial accounting that the DND is also oblivious to...

I'm on the fence, I'm not in total disagreement, or agreement, I have grappled with what the fix is for a while.... a born and bred finance officer is almost as out-to-lunch when it comes to "how things work in the Army" as a civilian, so at least if the civilian is a designated accountant they...

All I'll say is there is plenty of money for both Army units and the bases that support them, it is simply managed poorly (to be generous). Not a big surprise when your stance on managing money is that Commanders don't need to know anything about money because they'll always be supported by...

They would have to go to Parliament. The executive government always had the authority to re-classify firearms. It happened under PM Martin in 2014 when they turned a bunch of owners of the CZ858 and Swiss Arms Classic Green models into prohibited. Sure it was the RCMP that did it but anything...

I'm not sure I understand your point. It seems to be an argument about symmetrical vs. asymmetrical, but that's not really the same argument as having geography dictate who falls under what Brigade vs. having 1 CMBG consist of 1 VP, 2 RCR, and 3 R22R.

Geography is a real constraint and has a huge impact on your ability to train together. It also matters for understanding the constraints each unit faces. I used to think 2 RCR was probably pretty similar to 2VP, being separated from the Brigade, having a big training area next door, etc. After...

Well that's the rub, ain't it? I'm familiar with how messes and their budget works, I've been the Treasurer more than once. I've no doubt many people asked and were told "no, it's legit," but did anybody grieve it? All I've ever seen anyone point to is "you have to be a member of the mess."...

I couldn't get the QR&Os open for some reason so I was going check on DWAN, but an "account owed" in that context is clearly meant to be something like a bar chit, as the member has agreed to that liability when they purchased something. That's an entirely different story from the Base Comd or...

Removed as I think I might have a definitive answer to my question.

We've had some pretty bad recruiting/retention numbers since COVID, I've heard in the realm of -10,000 people in Reg Force. I wouldn't be surprised if we're below 60k at this point.

That was literally what I said... In most cases that's going to wind up being the exact same as FPTP... admittedly it would have been a very strong CPC minority in 2019 if they did that, but historically in most cases whoever wins popular vote wins the most seats, and are overrepresented in...

I fear with the way this is going for the Liberals, firearm owners are about to get a serious beatdown.

The real weakness of P.R. is that there is no accountability for individual MPs, they become slaves to the party. Given that we are already suffering from that in our current FPTP system, then I would argue we should either fix it by making MPs relevant again (which we seem incapable of), or we...

Perhaps the PRes could stop trying to do level 3/4/6 training and just run good level 1 and 2 training....... Lord knows the Reg Force already spends too much too time on 3/4/5/6/7 and not nearly enough on level 1 and 2 which is what the soldiers want and need. Anyway, I'm sure 2VP can't wait...

I was thinking more along the lines of arming every citizen... I'm not sure trying to create a standing army was a good strategy, might be way too much of a first world idea for a third world problem.

I'm pretty familiar with how they're staffed and the garrison/field split. Not necessarily W Battery but in general. People end up in those jobs for multiple years sometimes, quite frequently. Often depends on if they're a "good guy" or not. There is utility to being able to utilize someone...