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They assembled the ship in five days. Do not underestimate the supply chain necessary to get the machinery and tooling in place needed to let the Lego blocks be assembled in five days.

The foundational question is how it would be possible to find someone worse than a Russian agent to be the Director of National Intelligence, and yet how Trump will manage to do just that.

In fiscal 25/26 Canada spent over (just over) 2 % of GDP on defence. That does not magically translate into new buildings filled with equipment and matériel overnight.

No, we permit them to land, refuel, and fly back to France without letting anyone deplane. Air France being refused landing rights in the US means we refuel them and send them home. If the crew have timed out, Air France can fly in another crew. And we can provide catering service to feed pax...

A310: hydraulic A330: FBW Not the same.

CAF is beginning the F35 and P8 transition, posting crew to allies to get them experienced. The old A310s are not comparable to A330s; last I looked the largest users of A310s are in Iran, hardly a hotbed of aviation modernity. RPAS is also driving demand, nTACS will be transitioning from...

Only because contracting for legal advice / legal support is even more convoluted than every other form of contracting ;)

He's the next Supreme Court Justice. https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/05/19/prime-minister-carney-announces-members-independent-advisory-board

With the NATO job not changing over until 2027, we're a bit premature in calling out person X or Y as the next CDS.

Exactly. MND just announced the CDS' best before date.

Of course people talked about Art. Both Picasso and Garfunkel.

MND has announced that Canada is nominating Gen Carignan for chair of the NATO military committee. Election this fall; position change summer of 2027. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nato-military-chief-carignan-9.7205492

The immediate question: How will he next top it?

Good.

Also gives additional training capacity by redirecting aircraft from show team to training system.

Unless they pull a Fetterman.

Trump 80 is June 14th.

Aussies fly the PC-21 for their air demo team. So the same.

So the chain of command above them that ordered them to perform at a show with low density / high cost aircraft should face sanctions? Because those are the folks who need to be punished, not the pilots ordered to perform a show.

Gurney Halleck is my favourite Star Fleet captain.