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Plan to your heart's content, but a civil, democratic society has roles and rules, even during national emergencies. The Emergencies Act purposely gives nod to the Charter; would you have it otherwise? The CAF has, in the past, deployed to emergencies at federal penitentiaries. Non-federal...

Both are, legally, very high bars if you intend to use them as a defence. I wonder people would feel if one of those rounds wounded or killed a neighbour or passer-by. I doubt even some of US 'stand your ground' laws extend to using deadly force when the threat is retreating.

I just heard a radio ad from DHC saying that Canada needs a federal water bomber fleet. Nothing like busking your products by trying to shape public policy.

Fine. They can get their potash and aluminum from someplace else then. I was never confident that any we we agreed to would stick anyway. He upended CUSMA, he would have upended whatever this was going to be. If their 'Security and Energy' demands are accurate, how can anyone on our side say...

And they have themselves to blame.

And it seems there are no laws that are not martial in your envisioned world.

Fine. They can get their potash and aluminum from someplace else then. I was never confident that any we we agreed to would stick anyway. He upended CUSMA, he would have upended whatever this was going to be. If their 'Security and Energy' demands are accurate, how can anyone on our side say...

Operating costs are different than capital. Without looking it up, I believe the Eglington Crosstown LRT was built by Metrolinx and turned over to the TTC, and I believe the Ontario Line under construction will be the same.

If the victims had been declared dead at the scene I'm surprised the ambulance would have transported them. Certainly in an urban area; in some rural areas, body removal services may not be available and it would be 'in the public interest' for the ambulance to transport.

One would have to get into the original charters to know that (hint: you would have to review the charters of CN's precedent railways). I don't think we can single out VIA as only being "half a system". The vast majority of Amtrak is operated on host railways (about 97%). I don't know enough...

There are many who advocate for Metrolinx to develop non-Toronto centric service, rail and bus, to cover areas in southwestern and eastern Ontario; so London hubbed and either Ottawa or Kingston hubbed. To date, the Ontario government is not one of those advocates. 'Contribute' is different...

It sounds like she only recognizes a higher authority and merely tolerates earthly concerns.

Or to build/move the Science Centre that only needed a refit. Or build Hwy 413. Of give away vehicle permits for free (an annual revenue stream of about $1Bn). The list is long and inglorious.

VIA's train to Peterborough (DMUs or 'Budd cars') was a victim of VIA route cuts along with several others. Perhaps automated ticketing might have helped but I doubt anybody was using that type of system in 1990. VIA gets to provide the service that Cabinet says it does, and that is part of...

The 'why not' is largely cost, coupled with population density. Linking communities along the north shore of Lake Ontario, such as VIA does, is a side benefit to the service that connects T-O-M, but at least has a somewhat decent population base. If the question is 'would the area get...

The reason for 'the train' going to BC was it was one of the 'terms of union' for the colony of BC to join confederation. The land in between, including a lot of Ontario, weren't provinces yet. You should clarify when you say "transit" whether you mean rail or bus, because many people feel...

My daughter gave me a DVD covering a carrier deployment. I was surprised by the youth of much of the crew and what the department heads, et al, had to deal with. Sure, they followed a limited number of crew members but you could see it in the wide shots as well. A lot of 'first cruise' crew.

Fair, but the point I was questioning is the assertion about people who have those 'skills', and assuming the money to enjoy them, wanting to also do them on behalf of the CAF. Clearly, they do exist. I am told the US Air National Guard is full of commercial pilots, and when I took a ride in a...

At $120/book retail, I sure home DoW gets a good deal (and Pete gets a good cut). I'm sure the book will fairly treat the advances of science, math, etc. in the Middle East when Western Europe were ploughing fields with sticks.

Perhaps not with this Administration.