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To help keep a truck line open with our small numbers we could offer discounted used trucks (or new builds with government backed financing) for friendly countries. Donate trucks to friendly countries with older fleets, or to the UN and other international groups for peacekeeping, WFP support...

We absolutely need to pay close attention to how different types of artillery are performing in Ukraine, but also take into account the factors behind some of that performance. Do their wheeled SPGs have comparable survivability rates to their tracked platforms? Are they being used in the same...

Absolutely - radical suggestion I know will upset some people, instead of forcing public servants to return to office, there seems to be indication that it's productivity increased with working from home. So make as many PS jobs that can be done from home, able to be done from home. We reduce...

Pay is good for people who are unskilled/uneducated for sure. Mixed bag depending on individual skill and education levels, but the fact that we keep having retention problems, especially amongst skilled trades, seems to point to their being working conditions for which alternatives are proving...

Just raises, absolutely - but with retention problems, raises/retention bonuses alongside things like geographic stability, housing, childcare, healthcare, or other benefits are needed to keep critical personnel in. We could double our F-35 order but it means nothing if pilots and techs have...

Our own budget gives 34%, you can download .csv files of breakdowns of spending by department off Canada.ca if you want to dig into it. But this NATO doc is probably the best measure to make meaningful comparisons with allied countries, and provides a common baseline to measure each other...

That's more than the initial 200 Canada paid for, I don't think there are actual public details on contracts Roshel has with Ukraine for the vehicles they've been buying beyond that, but maybe including RWS, further design refinements, added protection, comms gear? could all be adding to it...

If he had come out and said we're going to put tariffs on Canada until they are paying 2% (or more to make up for previous lack of funding), make changes to border controls, and other security related issues, and include defence and security clauses into future trade deals, I'd say you have a...

Some kind of amalgamation needs to happen. I'm from the reserve world and as much as opposition to reserve amalgamation has been mentioned in places like here before, at least from my unit there seems to be plenty of people who agree that there should be. Units ranging from pl(-) to coy(+) isn't...

I think the F-35 is the best aircraft available, and until a month or so ago I would have argued that depending on where future discussions within NATO land on what % to spend on defence we should look at acquiring more but I genuinely do not believe we can trust the US going forward to not...

They didn't have a video, but in that specific article he's quoted as saying: And every position he's listed as not having resigned from yet are non-profits and an advisory board for the University of Oxford. Not disclosing potential conflicts of interest I think is a major problem, and a...

In case anyone doesn't watch it, this was Trump's exchange with a journalist when asked about what would happen if Russia violated a ceasefire. "what if Russia breaks the cease fire?" "What if a bomb drops on your head?" This man would berate the Poles about not making a deal with Germany if...

Can't speak for your specific situation, but there are times when entire courses get their kit on course as a group, which might be your situation. Or it'll be a mixed bag. Regardless, the course staff will work around as best as they can if the rest of the course has kit. I did one course where...

2-3 weekends a month would align with my experiences too, a few years ago we had a couple periods of a few months where a lot of leadership was in every weekend, plus the parade/admin nights. Fair number of troops doing GDs or attending courses too. If you amalgamated/grouped units you'd have...

Don't tease us, we would do terrible, terrible things to get even a single working VECTOR.

Bulk weapon draws prepped on carts before parade starts, signed for by responsible pers for each pl has worked out well for us. If it's things like HMGs or SF kits you could also have a couple pers who are available earlier in the evening get them setup prior to, so the main body can just focus...

While troops aren't working most weekends, my experience the last number of years and based on this year's training calendar is that most leadership is working at least half, and often the majority of weekends as is. There physically aren't more NCOs to run additional training on any weekends...

$35 billion for the trans mountain pipeline Over $20 billion in contracts to Seaspan Shipyards, which results in contracts to various suppliers across BC and the rest of the country as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy Just under 30,000 federal public servants in BC at a cost of about...

Not sure where that situation stands legally, but I'm pretty sure I saw it the other week driving by still sitting there.