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The Canadian disease. And not just in defence procurement, witness Ottawa's LRT...

Thereby avoiding accountability for the taxing part, which is my point. The GST cut was a huge missed opportunity by the provinces to add to their revenues without actually increasing taxes on anyone by simply keeping the HST at 15%.

Maybe check and see what effect Ojibwa is having on marine traffic in Port Burwell...:)

I think I may have two...

Again, my mistake on that. Equalization payments I believe are unconditional. I still think it wouldn't hurt to look at transferring tax points to the provinces and holding the feds accountable for their clear areas of responsibility.

My bad. I checked my copy of Canada's Military Lawyers and the RCN position was the Judge Advocate of the Fleet, who was also the Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel (Admin). I did find a reference to a Naval Secretariat but it doesn't expand on what the role was.

Would it not also necessitate a rather long and very public surface transit to blue water that seems counterintuitive to the role?

This! Turn out for local elections is typically abysmal, which has the unfortunate side affect of making it very possible for very narrow special interests to exert influence their numbers might not otherwise warrant. There's no getting away from the fact that the government that delivers the...

I could very well be wrong but I had understood the position of Secretary of the RCN to have been their pre-integration equivalent of the JAG in the CA.

Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning. Think the bridge will be there and it will be there. It's a mother, beautiful bridge, and it's gonna be there. Ok?

Like you, my Dad was just shy of 42 years over a period that covered the Queen's Coronation, Centennial and the Silver Jubilee medals, none of which he received. In the first instance, his CO at 17 ROD in Vancouver just pointed to his Second World War ribbons and left it at that. He was never...

Basically just a Canadianized version of the RN shoulder board is it not?

Not sure when it was, but I seem to recall a DND publication, maybe an early Maple Leaf, with a collage of historical images of the Navy on the cover. These included a smiling image of a sailor in what some one must have thought was RCN square rig. Unfortunately he was wearing a USN gob hat.

Yup, 1930. When the powers that be twigged to the fact that gentlemen across the Empire weren’t thrilled to have the post-nominal VD after their names and the Volunteer Decoration became the inspirationally named Efficiency Decoration. Fortunately by the time those letters themselves took on a...

Here's the actual news release: Minister Blair announces major investments in equipment and training for the Canadian Armed Forces in partnership with Canada’s defence industry - Canada.ca

There was supposed to have been a third tranche of six ships but they were sacrificed to the peace dividend after the Berlin Wall came down. Or I should say the second peace dividend after PET took one in 69-70...

Or HMCS Grilse?

This is the kind of thing that bugs me because it's so simple and straightforward. He is the King of Canada and has been for more than 18 months. We know he has both an RCN and a CA uniform (granted with Vice Admiral/LGen rank but I'm sure he has a tailor could fix that assuming as King he gets...

Yup ditto

Growing up we had three newspapers delivered to the house. Monday through Friday we had the Ottawa Journal, until it died and we started taking the Citizen, and the Montreal Gazette which you could get home delivered in Ottawa. Needed that for the coverage the Habs and Expos. Sundays we had home...