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If the CAF/DND/GoC can use that intelligently, "peacekeeping" and DOMOPS covers all sorts of expensive noncombat items as far as selling expenditures to the public. Trucks, helicopters, deployable medical infrastructure, and who knows what else can benefit from peacekeeping and aid vibes...

Good Idea Fairy: "Sounds like a job for a parachute engineering platoon."

I think reframing it as "why don't we have a maritime gendarmerie" makes more sense. The current CCG isn't a defence or enforcement organization, and none of its major roles belong anywhere near the Navy, except for the Any/Any Canadian Ship stuff. There's a variety of former organizations...

Can governors fire their AGs? Also, saw some bit of law (policy?) being referenced on Bluesky that seemed to suggest that calling NG to federal service was only involuntary for tasks outside of the US, i.e., that domestic call ups were subject to the approval of the governor. Might be bogus or...

As default, agents of the government must be subject to that risk. As a desirable/undesirable in Canada, or in another country? To offer a straightforward example, a violent uprising in Moscow complete with FSB agents falling out of windows has no notable downsides.

Seems like a good framing: do you want someone(s) in your battery whose raison d'etre is keeping drones and other flying pests away on top of the people serving the guns, PY'd to that end, or do you want it managed as one more additional task for the gunners that might or might not result in...

Seems a bit wobbly at the upper end. Wonder why the arm was chosen, instead of, perhaps, something with the tray running all the way up.

Isn't the "linked to the CCP" criteria a bit broad? Thought Party membership was somewhat the done thing for the ambitious or connected, i.e., the sort of person who'd also be inclined to study abroad if it offered better outcomes than domestic ed.

Depending on the model, definitely. One (probably) not needing a "United Nations of Canada" treaty could see the AFN acting as facilitator to bring together a per-consultation group of affected nations, and perhaps get a bunch of the intramural politicking addressed, before putting everyone...

This, especially within the arcs of their trade or field (e.g., a hypothetical green Tac Hel platoon formed of flying WOs and supporting pers, various species of shop, office, and cell, medical establishments, etc.). Hopefully the creation of this sort of WO would also come with CFR, CT, and...

I don't really care about mechanics, just "a decision." The process (committee of the whole, regional sub-assemblies, per-request groups; majority, consensus, supermajority, whatever), as far as an outside entity looking for indigenous input, matters far less than that the decision is accepted...

Putting questions to the AFN or equivalent organization would be an answer.

A barge/landing craft that's already in place could be taken over by naval reservists or (engineers? Loggies?) in the case of hostilities. Meanwhile, it's provided a decade or three of mobility for Ranger activities, DOMOPS, and what-have-you at points in the year when Desgagne isn't around...

One party is an immigrant gaoler, the other an elected federal rep. There should be no question of who defers to whom if there's a question of appropriate action.

Whatever is required to ensure that the representative is able to carry out their lawful duties: in this case entering, without warning or oversight, ICE facilities. That could be Congressional ID slid across the counter, an asp to the knee (or whatever), or the sort of force @Good2Golf...

The fact these goons felt they could play power games with elected representatives (almost entirely a political and appearance matter) rather than deferring and saying "sure, bring the mayor, whatever" matters more than the legal points. As in where/when/how one might transition to the other?

A bunch of those wouldn't be the worst thing for non-green settings: fill that step between "Gator" and "vast crew-cab."

That's where I'm coming from as far as "a nudge." Upgrade the local level to "bootlace," chin off a couple of decade-old layers of staff (Area and Zone; each area's got a Major, each Zone a Capt, with associated NCMs and Class A Area Elemental Advisors (also LCdr/Maj, and of late not even being...

7, and a major nudge needs to happen to see much increase in any sort of "doing stuff," regardless of the particular nature of "stuff."

I wonder what the precedent, written or otherwise, is as far as aides, pet experts, and other hangers-on when a rep or senator is poking around somewhere?