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Minority Government leader Martin is faced with a committment to undertake a Federal Election 30 days after the Gomery Report is filed (and accepted, which could cause a delay). Election has been planned since Nov 2004; Liberals expect to form a Majority Government. Although no one has said...

Goose Bay for the IDF AF is not a bad idea - but the IDF is short of cash, so the project would have to be subsidized one way or the other. It appears Goose is going to be the home of Raytheon X Band Radar, which is a positive move, but the old air base is an ideal flying facility - weather is...

DND HQ will announce today a "new command structure" featuring a Central Command based in Ottawa headed by CDS and six national command headquarters - General Hillier's plan, which has a definative link, perish the thought, to unification. What a clever idea. Sorry about the spelling of Premier...

What is "independent critical thought?  Just asking. Macleod

Kiline and Harper are constantly being "put down" by many Western Canada newspapers, most notably the Sun Group, which most reader's think are "conservative", but in fact are not. Fact is, no one in Central or the Atlantic region cares if Kline got elected four times, and Harper, unfortunately...

Well, a lot of people and politicians are reviled in Alberta, including Stephen Harper and Ralph Kline, but nobody cares. In the Canadian military Messes of forty years ago, talk focused on politics was strictly forbidden - it was a closed shop mentality, which cost the Military dearly, because...

Actually, I am not wrong. One of our cousins was the "desk" for the Atlantic Region in the PMO. Senator Keith Davey and former Liberal Party President, Norman MacLeod of Toronto were very close to the political Pierre E. Trudeau, and Trudeau was often, in those days, the topic of the day - there...

I intended to opt out of this post, because frankly, I have heard all the points of view before, but I can add some information which hopefully is pertinent. My family came to Nova Scotia fom Ireland in 1819 - a book was written about my mother's family, "The Williams Family - A Family of Sea...

As a final word on "unification" - it was badly thought out, without consideration to the overwhelming negative aspects to the Canadian military, and its ability to undertake what eventually became very complex military operations. Unification caused many dedicated, smart and higly trained...

A few comments on the Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter", which was underwritten by the US Government in the 'sixties to provide high performance, turbine fighters to the international sector considered friendly to the US at a low price. RCAF of the period needed to replace the F-104 and expected to...

Unification was the brainwave of Toronto Liberal MP and former Army Corporal Paul Helyer, who was chosen as Defence Minister in the Liberal government of the period. The concept, despite all the academic introspection and nit picking was based on costs, commonality of purpose and support, single...

A very smart lawyer, retired from the Faculty of Dalhousie University Law School told me one time that if the Canadian Bill of Rights "was challenged" the legislation would prove to be "unconstitutionsl" -at the moment, the political appointees who staff our Federal judicial system are playing...

The US Supreme Court have ruled on the law of "Eminent Domain" , which is the power of a Government to appropriate private property for it's own use without the owner's consent. It is rarely used in Canada, but eminent domain is always controversial. The action is used in the US primarily for...

The basis of British Common Law (BCL) is the protection of property - says so in the Magna Carta, thus the civil process of expropriation is designed to provide maximum protection for a property owner, through a complex administratve process. This requires a public entity such as a municipality...

This is not a new activity in the economic development sector of the public service. Lands are "expropriated" on a regular basis for the development say, of an industrial park or shopping centre, usually after the public body, a municipality, a county, Province or the Federal governmen decides...

The "philosophy" of the Liberal Party of Canada is to win the election, period. Liberal strategists only pay attention to their own polls, and they focus on numbers - the idea being "who has the most numbers, signified by the familier "x" on the ballot, wins". They analyse constituencies...

Despite what you have posted, the US Government has a number of options focused on Iraq, which are being debated in the US Congress at this moment. A Report in the 9 June 2005 issue of Military.com filed by Associated Press, Iraq, reported that 16 Private Security Contractors, and three Iragi's...

I posted my comments because the high regard the surviving members of 1SSF have for JTF2,which received a Presidential Unit Citation from President Bush in 2004. Unfortunately elite units do not last too lomg in the Canadian military - history is not on their side, despite the high quality of...

Support for the homosexual community in the Liberal Party of Canada has nothing to do with human rights, lifestyles, same-sex marriage or anything of consequence except, that the Party knows the gay community votes as a bloc - which fits neatly into the Liberal's strategy of providing goverance...

For Former Airborne, Canadian Army, two items of interest I would think. My neighbour in Moncton NB served in the 1st Special Service Force, was in all the battles in Italy, and knew Sergeant Tommy Prince whom he described as one of the bravest soldiers in the Force, decorated with the MM...