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Seems like if the bulk* of residents and their elected local and state governments don't care, and there's no unique federal interest (i.e., not in the capital, nor at, say, a border crossing) shrug and move on to any one of the infinity of problems where someone is asking for federal...

Query: would a fleet of corvettes potentially offer useful training space, while running around doing things (flag showing, drugs, pirates, mothership for ROVs/divers, FISHPATs and the like...) that don't need a CPF/RCD? Wouldn't sort out Aegis-dependent skills/trades, but what of everyone else?

So A makes sense, as does B. But what, other than pay, is the utility of C that couldn't be served by a CT, other than circumventing PY caps on (regardless of the component or path to hiring) permanent, indefinitely full-time CAF members? Could equally clean up the circumvention issue by...

Entirely agreed. So bin Class C and enable a WSE CT scheme.

Buy the RCH. Pair it with the LAV and light units. Issue a tightly-written Heavy Brigade Mobile Artillery RFI shortly after.

Why does Class C exist at all? A B contract can stretch, IIRC, to the duration of WWII...

Could definitely make more of both the Pat Bay and Victoria CCG sites. Wonder if the Pauquichin up at Coles Bay would be interested in some development and a long, long lease, too, if reasonable options for jetty expansion ran out elsewhere. On the Lower Mainland, Port Moody seems vaguely...

Where would make sense for that? Or, perhaps, for somewhere to shuffle AOPVs, corvettes, or PCTs to make room in Esquimalt Harbour? Shame the Saanich Peninsula is so built up, and the federal holdings so constricted.

Which will hopefully draw a suitable response.

Might effectively make up (ish) three seats if there's a rupture in the CPC and some people end up sitting as independents.

How much of this might be "we want to shave a few tons to pack a few more onto the landing ships for Taiwan" or "these are heavy DF support for counterinsurgency and other OOTW" or even "we've seen the problems VVP has with Bradleys, a bunch of these will be quite sufficient for nicking Siberia?"

From a point of zero knowledge: how valuable is an M Kill as a means to fix the tank so something else can kill it?

I noticed you're quite vague with your "human cost" statements. Dead Ukrainians of any kind? One is too many. Possible future deaths among allied forces? Ditto. Dead Russian service members, or those civilians who are legitimate targets? Their lives, and the continued existence of their...

Drip trays and spill kits for every household, party platform scribbled in the back of a greasy logbook.

In a different context, that could be a quote from a very valuable Honourary: someone with a totally different background, and access, clout, or visibility with groups not ordinarily aware of the CAF or [unit].

No "we gave three of these to the most aggressive drivers in NATO to thrash around a nest of logging roads, clear cuts, rocky fields, and ditches, while firing enough rounds to burn through x barrels," then?

Wouldn't mind a restriction on candidacy, outside of their initial riding, for a politically inconvenient period, for anyone who has lost their riding; possibly even for someone who has run and failed to win a seat.

Normally that might be a problem. Wonder if hiring foreign welders would fly right now, especially at "pry them away from guaranteed work in their home city" rates. Wonder if a foreign design would even be considered by Hegseth's ilk, including whoever's running DHS, regardless of how much the...

I'm so incredibly glad we don't hit F5 on the civil service with each change of government.

Both accurate and noncommittal.