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Well, I assume the PM doesn't read this website, so my question was aimed more at us, not at him.  I don't disagree with your subsequent comments, but I am interested to know if people think the restraints placed on reducing the size of the CF and closing unnecessary bases will be eased...

Very valid question, and yes to both: 1.  In my personal opinion, I see no major heartaches with an ELE extension for either fleet, but obviously it will depend on what fighter (and FWSAR asset) we buy.  We've been waving the magic wand on ELE's for many of our fleets recently (cough...

Here's a separate question that I'll frame in an Electoral perspective: Given that the one constant in efforts within the CAF to reduce budgets in various iterations was that the two sacred cows are personnel numbers and infrastructure (ie. bases), do you think there might be movement post...

I am glad someone mentioned debt in an earlier post.  I am concerned about the shape of the nations's debt-to-GDP ratio, and what the three parties intend to do to address it and ideally get it back to where it was in 1988 and 2007. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/canada/government-debt-to-gdp...

But I thought that "membership voicing their discontent" was the sign of a civil war within the party?  ;D Harrigan P.S. I am joking of course, but surely you see my point.

No, not at all.  What I am presupposing is that if the F-35A is chosen as our new fighter, we will have to either buy new tankers, or rely on the US for ALL of our AAR needs - for the obvious reason that we don't have a boom-equipped tanker.  I don't see a problem if we purchase a fighter that...

Fair enough, if you would support Trudeau for doing the same as Harper, I don't see how anyone can fault that. Harrigan

Well, OK, if we are content to simply rely on the US for all of our AAR requirements in future, then there is no problem.  Personally I think there is value in us having our own organic AAR capability. Harrigan

I didn't say it was a permanent mod, Max.  I said it was a specially-modded aircraft, which it is.  Any KC-135 can tank a CF-18, but only if it is using one of the limited sets of adapters (I couldn't recall the actual name for them).  My point was that not all the existing fleet of KC-135's can...

Apologies, HB.  The airfield point was in response to someone else.  Harrigan

So if Trudeau wins the election, reduces the Senate to a quorum filled with his appointees, you'd be fine with it? Harrigan

And the F-18s and F-35s cannot just fuel from "any" KC-135 - only ones that have specifically been modified to trail a hose from their boom. In terms of Northern airfields, I am talking for AAR.  non-CC130 tankers cannot operate from Kuujjuaq, Rankin Inlet or Inuvik. Harrigan

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/the-conservative-plan-to-become-canadas-natural-governing-party Both the Liberals and CPC aspire to be the 'natural governing party'..... And yet the electorate has been electing Liberals more often than not for a hundred years..... ...

OGBD, Yes, but my understanding is that hybridization project for the F-35A was cancelled, unless Canada paid for all the R&D, as we were the only ones who wanted it.  If we bought B or C models, it wouldn't be a problem.  But we are supposed to be buying the A model (if at all).  There's...

Apologies if I misinterpreted.  When I read...... ....I assumed you meant that the reform process must be initiated by the Provinces.  I agree that there probably are ways to make it less partisan, but only if the PM wants it to be less partisan.  This PM doesn't show any inclination to make...

I agree with all that you have wrote, except for your conclusions.  If that is your definition of "civil war", then sure, the Liberals have been at it since 1960.  However, they have also been in power for 34 of those 55 years (and 22 of the 25 years before that), so the "civil war" has not...

AAR is an issue - if it is not, why do we maintain not one but two fleets of organic AAR assets?  Yes, I know the Hornets need them, but they can (and do) use the US too, as you have just pointed out.  If the F-35, which uses an incompatible AAR system to our AAR assets, will simply use the US...

Agree 100% with Oldgateboatdriver and Mr.Campbell.  Here's another article that presents a similar case:  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/stephen-harper-needs-to-get-serious-about-senate-policy/article25676114/ Harrigan

The smartest thing for Mr.Trudeau to do now is to graciously accept the results in Eglinton-Lawrence and move on (probably the best result for them anyway).  A Liberal optimist will no doubt point out (probably on Power & Politics or some such..) that the charges of Liberals leadership...

I am not sure it is written anywhere that the provinces have to initiate the discussion - that's just a deflection from a federal government that wants this particular issue to go away.  However, no matter who initiates the process, it doesn't remove that requirement for it to be done legally -...