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NORAD goes... Then they start complaining about the "unprotected northern approaches" that Canada is doing nothing about... Then... well I'll leave my tin foil hat off for now.

Moving the goal posts again, I see.

U.S. says it’s pausing long-standing military board with Canada https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/us-says-its-pausing-long-standing-military-board-with-canada/

"There's two trades in the navy! Captain, and Captain's support!"

We developed launching asw helicopters from escorts but we didn't invent using helicopters for asw. So more evolutionary than revolutionary, and certainly not game changing.

You can't follow orders when sitting at the bottom of the ocean or transiting at beyond sub-crush depths because you can't receive orders at that depth. Sonobuoys that can relocate themselves? A sonobuoy is expensive enough as it is and they only last a few hours. Now you're talking about a...

Yes, the world built dreadnoughts. Canada didn't. Then the world built aircraft carriers. Canada didn't. Then the world built nuclear attack submarines and boomers. Canada didn't. Canada has never been at the cutting edge of game changing evolutions in naval warfare. We lack the both the...

I'm willing to have my mind change but for now I'm unconvinced and will remain the devil's advocate. Drone warfare in the naval domain is no where near maturity and any plans to refocus time, money, effort, and platforms into dedicating or even just expanding drone warfare capability is a...

You have to ask yourself, what are we defending the coast from? Do we actually, at the highest geo-politically strategic level, believe that an invasion of our country from the sea is a legitimate threat that we need to be planning and building toward defending against? I would posit: fuck no...

(If you know where this is from I'll be extremely happy)

Besides, you don't buy warships to defend your coastline, you buy warships to project power and influence.

Great post, Rick. I'm surprised (don't take this negatively) that you thought the public was actually more informed than the military with respect to the procedures of parliament and politics in general; I would have assumed the opposite. Further, to this point: You used the word "just" which...

The system he was referring to was the one where the US was the hegemon. He didn't mean that the system of disparate economies connected by world wide maritime trade was dead. He meant that we can't rely on the US to provide the blanket of security and stability; we have to go enforce it...

<waves hands in general direction of the current US administration>

Ah ok I misunderstood. I feel stupid for having thought you "also owned a 1000 acres of crown land", which doesn't make any sense.

Is the thousand acres close by or someplace completely different? Also.... does your thousand acres of land have any signs posted that say "no hunting without owner's permission?" :D

I have this idea that a few of those "10 potential floor crossers" we heard about earlier were essentially playing chicken with each other, unwilling to be the one that "gave the liberals a majority". Now that that's a done deal, they may be more ready to cross over, as their defection will have...

When I first moved to Halifax we were between elections and we had no idea who our MP was or what party they belonged to. Sometime later we received a letter/pamphlet in the mail from them and I was both frustrated and happily pleased because I was unable to figure out from the pamphlet what...

Has anything in the last year drastically changed for the negative? Legit question, from your perspective.

Given it looks lie Carney will remain PM and the Liberals remain in power until 2029, so you think that will change the calculus of the CPC as to whether they want a leadership change?