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Is the land your house sits on less "tainted" by empropriation? Did you pay the government of France for your land? What about the Mi'kmaq? Does 1943 magically make 24 Sussex less legitimate than any other expropriation?

TKMS must pay you well, or you have a lot invested in them... Between now and 2035, the RCN has a lot of time to train new Submariners. Particularly now that some sub specific trades are being developed, so sailora dont need to qualify surface before going subs in some trades.

I don't blame them, they were just the faces of weak governments and the mob.

I suspect the flinch was strong with the initial story. Protect the institution, regardless of the cost to members...

Because traveling in Cansda keeps the dollars in Canada, making Canada stronger, which helps America. 😉 The dollar also goes a lot farther here, so unless you need to visit Disney. The Maritimes or BC offer great beaches for a summer vacation.

There is also the liklihood that the CO and RSM disciplined soldiers for alcohol misconduct, and one of the troops had a chance to get back at them.

It's not surprising, it's surprising that the reduction lasted this long.

That's my point, parts can come from other places, but putting it all together is still a major task, and that can be done here. When I owned a '09 Colorado, the alternator was made by Mitsubishi. That didn't make my truck less Chevy, it just made it more reliable by having a high quality...

That isn't the goal. The goal is the ability to build kit. If we are using parts from elsewhere, that's fine. If the original design comes from elsewhere, that can be fine too. In a global world, almost nothing is made entirely "in house".

It wasn't intended as a flex, it was simply highlighting that the army keeps getting LAVs because we make them. If the CAF wants to have kit updated at a regular pace, then selecting kit made in Canada is the smart choice. If all the money and jobs go to foreign countries, Canadians will be...

The problem with that approach is, because we have spent so long just being a buyer, our industries need to be rebuilt. That means we might need to prioritize Canadian kit, even if it isn't the best. We need defence industries, because when the shooting starts and we need to replace kit, if we...

We already have F-35s on the order books, and Gripens are a step up from the Hornets we fly now, so this is a silly point. Perhaps your memory is slipping, but the whole "Elbows up" silliness was a direct response to America attacking our industries, and the President threatening our...

How misogynist of you, off to the re-education camps!

Sometimes they are right. Though maybe starting by keeping the violent offenders away from the reat of the population would be a better start.

Agreed, it will drive people toward the separate camp if it's pushed too hard and too loud.

And why don't we want to invest in defense? Because voters don't see an advantage in it perhaps? Would having lots of well-paid jobs in the defense industry likely change opinions on the matter? Look at GDLS, the CA never seems to have problems getting more LAVS. The GoC isn't talking about...

Alternatively, people are trying to have a discussion about the advantages of having domestic capacity to build fighter aircraft, and it gets derailed by "but the F-35 is better". As @GR66 pointed out above, building Gripens is a way to expand the fighter fleet, but more importantly get into...

I'm hoping we end up with that sort of situation, where we have an established maker, with lots of well-paid Canadian jobs, so that the GoC buys more kit more often. The alternative is a boom/bust cycle of buying cool kit, then running it well past the best before date, because there is no...

I don't doubt your sincerity, I'm just pointing out why it doesn't/won't work in peace-time. You can ignore the reality of the PBO and the electorate, but the government can't. No peace-time military has the freedom of maneuver to experiment in the same way as a war-time military.

That's a cute throw-away line, but when the next election comes around and you have to explain why you spent millions/billions on projects that lead to nothing, the story changes. I'm not suggesting change is bad, I'm simply pointing out that a nation at war has different priorities than a...