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Complimented by an old RN style WO scheme (WFR, effectively) for deep technical experience billets?

Bearing the limited training area in mind, a return to the West Coast and some sort of cost- and time-sharing arrangement with CJCR would be interesting. Plenty of expenditures CJCR-side that provide less value than, basically, buying whatever Oriole time the Navy doesn't want.

What's the actual annual cost?

Could see an argument for that as an RCAF Reserve role.

Which is more than the Lower Mainland has now, and within, traffic allowing, day-training distance.

Buy back/transfer Chilliwack, for starters. Convince some nation in the Interior to sign some sort of lease or shared use agreement for acres, many for mountain warfare training. Buy outright a smaller but healthy footprint for a permanent presence. Powell River might be worth looking at...

Could Industry Canada get on making a physical iteration of it?

The Marine Corps ball is a remarkably couth approach, especially as an all-ranks thing. As for Army birthday parades: if some sort of "march out of the garrison with flags and band, route to conclude in local park with beer, beef, and hopefully adoring civilians" thing didn't evolve in...

Though IIRC there was a parade with tanks and so on post-GW1. Maybe as a routine thing it was seen as too like the Soviet Victory Day?

The lower-deck drum might be dealing with the actual anchor line, or with an endless messenger line seized to the anchor line.

From a purely "amble around Esquimalt and Comox" assessment, and an assumption that everywhere else is much the same: any significant increase in throughput needs to be led with enormous investment in quarters.

Absolutely an area-by-area thing: popup storefront operations in the summer wherever there's significant 17-25 traffic. Get the initial contact and potentially any "any room with a door" parts handled, and then off to the area's main CFRC for medical and anything else better done at a more...

Or insistence on due process, re: warrants, arresting officers being identifiable as such*, and so on, as applicable. *not even touching anonymity, just "is this person law enforcement or a mugger?"

This. An immigration-status crackdown conducted by uniformed, unmasked feds using marked vehicles that saw everyone without authorization to be in the states punted back to their home country would be infinitely less riddled with abuses of people and process than this evolution. On top of the...

If the CAF/DND/GoC can use that intelligently, "peacekeeping" and DOMOPS covers all sorts of expensive noncombat items as far as selling expenditures to the public. Trucks, helicopters, deployable medical infrastructure, and who knows what else can benefit from peacekeeping and aid vibes...

Good Idea Fairy: "Sounds like a job for a parachute engineering platoon."

I think reframing it as "why don't we have a maritime gendarmerie" makes more sense. The current CCG isn't a defence or enforcement organization, and none of its major roles belong anywhere near the Navy, except for the Any/Any Canadian Ship stuff. There's a variety of former organizations...

Can governors fire their AGs? Also, saw some bit of law (policy?) being referenced on Bluesky that seemed to suggest that calling NG to federal service was only involuntary for tasks outside of the US, i.e., that domestic call ups were subject to the approval of the governor. Might be bogus or...

As default, agents of the government must be subject to that risk. As a desirable/undesirable in Canada, or in another country? To offer a straightforward example, a violent uprising in Moscow complete with FSB agents falling out of windows has no notable downsides.

Seems like a good framing: do you want someone(s) in your battery whose raison d'etre is keeping drones and other flying pests away on top of the people serving the guns, PY'd to that end, or do you want it managed as one more additional task for the gunners that might or might not result in...