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There's always someone who thinks they can run things better. "If only I were in charge...." Step up.

Cbt Arms guy wants to sound important. Actual security has more to do with brains than braun. Exactly why Security Forces is now becoming a proper trade.

100%. It was cute when I took some PS up to North Bay and there was a WASF exercise going on. Was entertaining that somebody thought it was serious.

100%. Unfortunately, the Gripen chuds will take this as evidence of why we shouldn't buy the F-35, instead of evidence that our infrastructure is decrepit. The F-35 has been an amazing forcing function for all of government to do all the infrastructure, security and IT stuff we should have...

We have those courses too. And most serials are full these days. We're flat out told that you will accept less these days. You may want a Sergeant with technical experience as the SME on your project staff. Guess what? You will be getting a new MCpl who has finished his type course. Get...

Correct. They aren't moving to Canada till infrastructure is complete and certified. And on the current timeline, that's probably beyond 2030.

I can read the winds at Carling. A dual fleet is coming. One way or another. So I'd rather have that second fleet be GCAP than Gripen.

People are the LimFac. See my above point. Notably all the staff weanies and procurement folks. ADMs in Carling are fighting over engineers and procurement folks. Some are working multiple projects. Which is a recipe for burnout long run. But because of the way government works, it's not...

Producing a gas turbine and producing one that is effective or leading in combat are very different things. Look how long it took China to reverse engineer Russian turbines. And they still aren't anywhere as powerful or reliable as American engines. That's why the Chinese have 3 engine sixth...

There's nothing interesting about it. We don't have any crews who have completed conversion yet. When they do, the jet will be delivered to them. Should happen sometime this Fall.

Good news. We don't have the people to spend 2.5%. Let alone 3.5%. So.....

My biggest gripe with Carney was ditching the Digital Services Tax. When you understand how big the US Tech sector is, you start to understand that nothing scares the Americans more than a DST and a willingness to ditch American software. See France making their whole government ditch...

Most of them aren't illegals though. Agriculture, food processing, restaurants and hotels, construction, etc. Those are places where you see illegals. I have never seen anything in Canada like what you see in a Home Depot parking lot in the US, where people wait for day jobs.

You're wrong here. The US Tech Sector is 18 times the size of the US Defence Industry on market capitalization, 12x on profitability and 6x on share of GDP. OSAMA are the new kings of American industry: Open AI Space X Anthropic Meta Alphabet

I'm not one for conspiracy theories. I just think they are clueless, panicked and desperate. And they are starting to understand that huffing their own farts on all that ideology isn't actually delivering results. Turns out you can't tax cut your way to a balanced budget. Turns out that you...

He's finally learning. That's class. Compare that to the quisling Jivani who sucks up to the US while voters in his own riding lose jobs.

The US Social Security Trust Fund is 6 years from running empty. And if they tried to balance their federal budget exclusively using GST, they'd have to impose a 20% GST. As per a discussion I heard from Mike Moffat on a recent podcast. The US is actually third in the G7 for their debt ratio...

Exactly. All their politics is about keeping the slaves fearful. Not actually stopping illegal employment. Bankrupt a few farms and contractors caught hiring illegals and watch how quickly whole thing ends.

Whatever the provenance of that, the reality is that the US wields ITAR as a significant lever. And after Trump, nobody trusts that Americans won't weaponize that leverage further. It'd be crazy to simply handwave that threat away. Why should the rest of the world have to suddenly worry about...

See my edit above. We won't be able to do that with a smaller economy, which is an outcome the CAF would contribute to by shipping defence dollars overseas (not just to the US). Also, the CAF won't have much credibility with the voting public if our perception of the threat is different from...