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Maybe not glamorous, but your description sounds like it would appeal to lots of shade tree mechanics and other tinkerers.

That's a whole other issue! I was thinking of providing additional Arctic training opportunities for non-Arctic NATO countries, in addition to whatever's currently being laid on in Scandinavia.

New at-home spending suggests, if nothing else, that you might feel more confident sending kit to Ukraine.

Expanded or refreshed training establishments, too, to compliment the Nordic countries' Arctic training. For balance, see about getting a routine Canadian serial (or individual billets) on French jungle warfare training.

Would it be worth inviting the French to establish a Rafale presence as an initial move?

If I'm reading things correctly, when does the Korean-for-sailors DLN course launch?

Wasn't suggesting total war, just matching, more or less, the sort of dirty tricks the Russians are playing. And it's really easy to criticize them when peace is only going to mean Russian re-arming.

Providing Ukraine with every tool suited to causing the deaths of Russian service members and government officials, and the wholesale destruction of Russian equipment and infrastructure, from knives to bunker busters. No restrictions on their use. Real money bounties on Putin, his cabinet, and...

I'm assuming wherever that yard was in Montreal is now some sort of urban residential or commercial site. Not suggesting dropping billions on it to create a new yard, just there's only so many places where the stars (nearby population, a suitable shoreside geography, and whatever else) align...

No idea what any of the Trump voters or abstainers think of Canada, but whether with, against, or too lazy or checked out or whatever to care, it's their 170 million individual decisions that brought about this situation.

And ~170 million people either failed to vote, or voted for a known agent of chaos, probable agent of Russia, and reflexive autocrat or against a pair of candidates who were neither of those things. Those 170 million are to blame for everything Trump and his gang inflict on the US, Canada, and...

Any area of the country seem like a particularly good option for that sort of facility?

A massive block of the programming changes were directly downstream of, IIRC, Harper-era budget cuts. Local suffered because it's labour intensive. Lots of personal-story radio, though, which is cheap. At the same time, the drama side of the house appeared to catch a bad case of Safe...

Your Senator is also shelter. Not five-star shelter, but somewhere out of the weather with more room than a pickup, and big enough for briefings, O groups, and whatnot with a potentially useful number of people.

To not so much beat the drum as play riffs upon it, and noting the phase-out of passenger rail post war, but on VI the IIRC 1914 steam passenger schedule is competitive with both the current fractured commuter bus service and with driving, and likely much more reliable than both. I wonder how...

Interesting to see Iran not on the list.

That's the idea. Absolutely a balancing act, but we absolutely do not tax high-performing individuals or companies enough. The idea is that Canada's resources and industry, in the old, broad sense, benefit Canadians as a whole. Telling the big rail lines that they're going to maybe eat the cost...

Not having the siren song/arm twist from south of the border working against establishing a domestic capacity (whoever owns it) won't hurt either. Time to encourage Korean, British, German, Swedish, and French firms to build plants in Canada, as well as making room for purely domestic outfits...

Might be something to be said for leaning on the two big lines to make space, one way or another, for passenger rail on their corridors, whether that means a CPKC/CN passenger system, double- or triple-tracking to provide capacity for Via, letting Via or whoever build on CPKC/CN rights of way...

Maybe? Somehow magicking up the been/done MS-PO1 to instruct might be a bit more of a problem. A bunch of the trades that got bundled into MARTECH had (remembering vague outlines, vaguely) ferociously long training trajectories, and far too many of the rebadged Engineering and HT types are now...