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Getting back to this months later, CBC has some interesting info on the legality of the refugees.  Specifically referring to Section 133 of the Immigration Refugee Act: 133 A person who has claimed refugee protection, and who came to Canada directly or indirectly from the country in respect of...

That's for the air frame.  The potential deal with Boeing is for more than air frames.

You first?

It wouldn't be $95M for a comparable suite of capabilities.  Not even close.  It would be in the same ballpark. 

Any word when the OOSV might start?  The yard is supposed to be capable of building 4 ships at a time.

That's a good looking ship.  I hope the other contenders are as impressive.

The end to RTW in the US would be a massive equalizer for Canada in terms of labour competitiveness. 

An update on Canadian efforts in relation to Irma, including the deployment A C-17 to transport supplies from France, 2-3 C-130s to deliver supplies from Canada and other countries, a CP-140 for survey duties, and HMCS St. John's with helicopter...

That's a big boat (sorry, ship).

A Canadian disaster assessment team is being deployed to Antigua.

True - I'm being over enthusiastic, I suppose.

We should be sending them to Oaxaca right now, IMO.

Sorry - should have looked at the date.  I made a bad assumption since the story had just been updated 18 minutes ago when I posted. I would imagine that finding a way between the projected paths of Irma and Jose will be like threading the eye of the needle.

HMCS St. John's left a few minutes ago just in case - still no request for assistance: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/hmcs-st-johns-navy-hurricane-irma-1.4279685

The US has no reason or obligation to take them back - that's the problem.

I was thinking more from the point of the Caribbean islands.

Any request for Canadian help at this point (that anyone has heard of, anyway)?

To be fair, I don't believe the interim buy was ever part of the election platform.

Not my area of expertise - you would hope they'd have some kind of plan to go with this.

Well, theoretically, there's supposed to be more money coming this fall for that kind of thing - we'll have to see if it actually materializes.