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Absolutely mind boggling that in an age where fire season seems to start earlier & earlier, and end up with bigger fires threatening more communities — this is the area governments across the board choose to cut It isn’t an occasional thing. Every year, we have massive forest fires. Every...

It would have been wasted money either way, for the reasons given. The Australian F-18’s needed modernization, and cost us a pretty penny. But the F-35 - as the plane was when we first hummed about buying 65 - were going to leave us in a world of hurt also…and a probably more expensive...

I’ve seen the odd course video (I think it’s course video anyway) and yeah, there’s a bunch of bright orange dudes doing free fall in them

Damnit, you’re right. When I think back to when I did my EMT course, a huge chunk of our scenarios were based on MVC’s or something similar, and securing/treating patients at high density events (concerts, hockey games, etc) where all of a sudden, every single chic within eyesight is a bloody...

🤦🏼‍♂️ What the actual f**k…

Any organization that can grow by 31% while offering the same level of service as it did before (or in some cases, worse service) is excessively bloated. Agreed.

Read the link posted - Thanks for that

Please forgive the delayed question here, re Kingfisher The CC-295 Kingfisher is based off of a mature platform thats in service with other nations…is it not? I know deliveries started last year, but are we having difficulties or challenges in using them as intended?

The per unit acquisition cost back then was substantially more than it is now. The computers & systems in those early lot aircraft aren’t even compatible with the computers & systems that go into current aircraft rolling off the assembly line…heck the airframes themselves have actually changed...

A step in the right direction?? With their budget woes & annual list of complaints, I feel like this skyrockets them to…somewhere 🤷🏼‍♂️ 60 Chinooks is an amazingly formidable airlift capability on the battlefield! But that’s also going to cost a lot of maintenance $$…maintenance $$ they don’t...

Voting Day is coming up, and people are starting to answer the polls & be more active in their responses…is my guess Think of how much we all dislike Trudeau. Now imagine someone else gets elected who - while some folks will always complain - is the opposite of Trudeau in a bunch of good...

I think it's the image that China would be sending to the world. In this case, China would be the party helping to facilitate negotiations to end the largest war in Europe since WW2, and the most destructive war since Korea. It would be China helping to bring aboit a cease fire, or peace. Not...

I genuinely think the slow roll was deliberate... A) Perhaps so UAF personnel could be trained up on it & absorb it into their armed forces B) Similar to the above. Perhaps the west thought slow & steady on the new kit would be best, rather than have them trying to absorb too many new...

I've heard in passing (more than once) that while our adversary in the Cold War, the USSR was far more preferable to deal with than modern day Russia. The USSR, for all of it's flaws, had a moral compass somewhat similar to the west, aka they were predictable & professional It must have...

I'm trying to look at it in a more positive light... maybe we can UOR a bunch of the kit we want, and skip the whole "Everybody gets an equal opportunity to do business with us" acquisition process 🙏🙏

100% agreed on every point. if Bombardier wants to get into the civil-military aircraft market as it see's some potential growth into those markets? Great! (Took long enough, and a few countries to take their products & modify them themselves...) They have to earn it. They are also in a...

Ah, gotcha It's a good thing we didn't buy them when Harper was PM! I think we can all look back at this and chuckle that our extremely drawn out competitions can sometimes be hidden blessings... We'd have 65 F-35 jets that would almost be an outdated & non-upgradeable orphan fleet among...

Typically I would agree with you, and if the matter were purely an internal Canadian matter that would probably be the case. But Trudeau is well recognized throughout the G7, especially by some important people down south, as being the wannabe dictator piece of s**t that he is...and state vs...

That stopped when the Auditor General stepped in? (Mind elaborating?)

Sounds like someone was smoking while getting a haircut... What's with all these Russians smoking all the time? Sheesh...