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My thoughts would be more along the lines of establishing a universal standard and list, along the lines of the red seal trades. It can be done, the red seal trades prove that (as trades are also provincially managed). You could even have it set up so that when you work in another province you...

The whole reason we have universal healthcare is the Federal government and them saying you play ball with us or you don’t get the following funds. Yes it is Provincially controlled and they do get the final say however the Feds can flex a ton of influence on them to get their way. The amount...

It can be both… That being said there is a blindness within Canada to looking at our flaws for ways to improve because ‘America’ doesn’t or does do something. Take our healthcare, lots could be greatly improved on, but many refuse to even consider the idea because ‘America doesn’t have...

If a recession resets housing bringing it back to affordable levels, I would consider it a good thing.

Not surprising we are in a recession. Considering our trade partner 10x our size who is 71% of our exports and 58% of our imports has decided to have a trade war with us. On top of that we have basically been in a recession for a decade, the only thing stopping the formal declaration of that...

I wouldn’t even argue it is the procurement system, rather the political system. None of the political parties have been serious about the military since the 80s (and even then they spent more because of the red threat than any desire to keep up on defence). Look at the CAF today, basically...

Or how for decades after unification we called arty Cpls Bombardiers… Still wrong is wrong and I would love to see that proper standard applied here.

Why do you believe a threat to them is a threat to us? Most threats to the US are to their external interests, not to North America itself. Choosing to get involved globally with other peoples issues for your own financial benefit is a choice they have made. They are a undemocratic oligarchy...

What is a threat to the US isn’t necessarily a threat to us. They like playing world police for their own benefit (because it certainly isn’t for anyone elses), which puts them on a collision course with most countries. I do think we should take a much more sovereign approach to defence, and a...

That is not a option for most. Take a house. Paying a mortgage for 25 years basically doubles the cost (ex. you buy house for 100k you pay 200kish by time it is all said and done). Buying outright saves money, especially in the long term. Unfortunately most can’t afford to do so.

Considering the cheapest new car in Canada is around 18k, it goes up quickly from there. When I bought a SUV for the wife/child the base model was 45k.

They also used to run BMQ and BMQ-L co-ops for highschool students. Not sure if this is still done or is a option for you, as mentioned above something to talk to the recruiter about.

They wouldn’t just be buying steel from Algoma, they would also be building a structural beam mill at Algoma too.

Ahh the France not allowing genetic test method… is it better to remain in the matrix than the reality?

Will congress give him the ability to do that? Thats the fun part about starting a war which your own country isn’t necessarily even for, you get your cards limited.

Yeah good in theory, corporate welfare says differently in practice. They intentionally let things get to a bad point (i.e. not spending on maintenance/expansion, rather taking that money and spending on themselves), at which point the government steps in and pays for it because it is a...

Considering the States is currently upgrading their side of the locks and we want to open up the ring of fire, yes that is nation building. There is demand, if we choose to be a part of it is the question. I am also a big proponent of railways, across the whole country. The amount we spend on...

We should as it is clear the reason for the initial building of those locks still exists. We created the Canadian side locks because the Americans denied us transit of our ships with troops on them to go fight the Northwest Rebellion so they had to completely disembark with all the stores and...

I am thinking of where kit is stored and access to said equipment as well as the travelling to train part. Take 49th field. Makes sense currently because of Grayling, if they had to drive to Pet for every gun ex I doubt the unit would be remotely viable (7+hour drive one way, which for a...

Does it still make sense to have some of the Arty units where they are, or should they reroll units closer to the main bases to ‘arty’ and farther away units to something which is easier to do stand alone training?