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Keep in mind that while high oil prices will be good for the Government of Alberta (to help with their projected $9.4 billion deficit) it will be bad for the rest of the economy as it will cause the price of everything that requires transportation to increase.

Assuming they can find him quicker than they found Bin Laden...

LCol Morneault tried that and see where it got him...

I totally don't get your logic here. So, we pay for a wing of F-35's for the Americans but we supply the pilots and fly them on behalf of the whims of the US. We also purchase our own fighters and supply the pilots to do with as we wish. As long as we are in lockstep with what the Americans...

I don't see how what you are proposing gives us any advantage or increase in co-operation and interoperability that partnering in arrangements like NORAD give us. On the downside however your proposals for making our forces an integral part of the US military would clearly subjugate us as a...

But co-operative ventures is not what you proposed. You advocated (twice) for integration of our militaries: Who's commanding that jointly crewed AUKUS submarine? The US with their 68 crew members (and their globally dominant military and economy) or the Canadians with their 8 crew members or...

There are rumours as well (as alluded to in this piece on Noah's substack) that the Haeseong-IV cruise missile (shown being demonstrated in this WarZone article from 2021) can possibly be launched from the KS III VLS cells. If true, then that would certainly add a major anti-surface capability...

Well, if we're just going to be a full-nation "American Foreign Legion" obediently deploying to defend their national interests as they dictate then we might as well burn our Canadian flags and become the 51st State. I guess in that case JT was right and we would be "the first Post-National...

So instead of a sovereign military serving Canada's interests we essentially become Auxillia to the American Empire?

There are a couple of examples from WWII. Here's a picture of the cruiser USS New Orleans followed by a summary of incidents provided by ChatGPT: [Edit] For some reason copying and pasting from ChatGPT didn't include the ships names in the incidents listed: USS New Orleans (CA-32) USS...

The problem I see is the numbers. In RAdm Robinson's interview above he said the number isn't really up to 12 subs it's really 8 or 12. Eight gives four on each coast with one available at any time. Twelve (presumably 8 in the East and 4 in the West) gives you one operational sub for each of...

I'm not expressing a preference for conventional vs nuclear, just pointing out that people much, much more knowledgeable than I on the matter have expressed that the RCN doesn't currently have the safety the culture required to run a SSN fleet and that the costs in infrastructure, support and...

A number of people much smarter and experienced than I have listed the challenges that would be faced in operating and supporting nuclear submarines vice conventional ones.

The problem is who do you expect the Iranian Army to surrender to? There is nobody on the ground there to surrender to. Are they to just lay down their arms, declare themselves disloyal to the regime and be massacred by the IRGC? Desert the Army and hide among the civilian population and hope...

While the final price is still being negotiated, we already have approval from the US for FMS of 26 x HIMARS launchers. Does it make much sense to cancel that in order to re-open the program and expect any defence contractor to set up a production facility in Canada for 26 units of what is...

Interesting comment around the 40:15 mark where the interviewer is rhyming off the types of weapon systems that are available on modern submarines and says "there's certainly ballistic missiles...Canada's not looking for that" to which RAdm Robinson responds "they're not". I wonder if this is...

Last I heard from the President was "unconditional surrender" and Trump's say in who the next Iranian leader is.

I'm not saying that there isn't the opportunity for US defence contractors to open production in Canada. US companies having foreign production for foreign customers is one thing. However, Canada doesn't require enough T-7's to justify opening a production line here just for our demand and I...

I'm not sure if you've been watching the news at all lately, but I don't get the impression that the current US administration is big on the idea of offshoring manufacturing at the moment.