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Agreed. It's been eye opening for me to see the cultural differences at Carling. That said, the PAD governs us all. And more should be common than not, for procurement. Haven't had that pleasure....

PM's will only outrank PDs (both functionally and on PS pay grade) at Definition. Either way though, PM is not your CoC. When I don't like what my PMO is doing I threaten (and have) sent notes up the chain. This sounds like an Army thing. Honestly. Can't say I've seen PMOs tell the Air...

Do you blame them? Look at Civic and Corolla sales in Canada. People keep buying pickups and SUVs. And desire models like the Civic and Corolla getting bigger, they can't sell as many as before. It is indeed supply and demand. Consumers have only started worrying about fuel costs with the...

This. I feel like people really forget how much maintenance cars took before the 2000s. Go far enough back and you might need an oil change to get across the country. That's how low maintenance intervals were. Rosy retrospection is high here. And rust. Holy hell. Getting a vehicle to...

Literally any modern car will last 12 years if you just do recommended maintenance on time, don't cheap out on parts and put the recommended fuel in it. Especially if you drive less than 20 000 km/yr. It's really not that hard. People who say their vehicles don't last 12 years are telling on...

Nobody said otherwise. Though I question how sincere this sentiment is when driving is so heavily subsidized in North America. And given how much every other form of transport is both demonized less subsidized. In any event, EVs and hybrids are flying off the lot now that owning a full size...

Define "peaked". My 2003 Lexus IS was starting to rust when I sold it in 2012. With 210k on it. My 2013 Jetta Hybrid didn't have a spec of rust and only started giving me trouble at 240k. Sold it after 12 years. Cars have gotten more reliable and lower maintenance over time. Stats bear...

You just need strong PDs to counter this. After all they represent the sponsor. Can't say I have has PMs think they know more than the PD. I have seen pushback on what the PM thinks is feasible or contractable. And I think that's fair.

Most project managers are civilian at DND.

The whiplash is interesting. Went from and ADM literally telling people to "Spend it like you stole it," to "Can you guys slow down? We don't have money" in like 3 months. Lol. Vote 1 and Vote 5. That said, this isn't really impacting major procurement.

"Drones" are a broad category. It's like saying a 737 and an A380 are both passenger aircraft. That's technically true. But they have vastly different performance and roles. Nobody would suggest we just pick a a 787 in the middle of these two and then have airlines only fly a 300 seater on...

The entire RPAS project is so f'd. They asked for too many things from one platform. That's why it's so late. It's silly. We should have split our domestic surveillance requirements from our theatre level strike requirements. The Sky Guardian will always struggle with the Arctic. And now...

They do. That's part of the training fleet restructuring. It just takes a while to make instructor pilots. And once the new fleets are in, it's easy to buy a few more birds if needed.

It won't. But also, we need to take American complaints about Chinese goods with a grain of salt.

It's funny that you lump Canadian business in with "the world". Our biggest business are those famously innovative grocery stores and banks and railways and telecom. All well protected from foreign competition and all who massively underinvest in productivity relative to G7 peers. Let's not...

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I think a lot of people are forgetting how to Poilievre came to power. He courted the Convoy crowd. These influencers were all part and parcel of an attempt at a Canadian MAGAesque movement. He led their parade and pushed O'Toole. So they are very much his people. He can't control the party...

I believe he would have happily sacrificed Ontario and Quebec industrial jobs to just get more oil and gas sales to the US. Kinda what happened under Harper. https://jobmarketmonitor.com/2014/02/27/manufacturing-in-ontario-some-300000-jobs-lost-over-the-past-decade/ This is really why some...

Stupid autocorrect. Meant to say orbat change.

Great Battle Order video covering the ornate change: