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The Germany example showed how fast political wounds heal. I'm sure ours from nasty language and tariffs will as well. The US is more than the venal and capricious man sitting leading its current administration just as Canada is more than the dancing, unethical fool who ran our country for a...

In 1955, we were moving soldiers and their families to a country with whom we had conducted 2x total wars with over the previous half century. Our bombers took part in raids that turned their cities to charred ash, but that was alright due to the depths of their crimes against humanity. Within a...

We got over the War of 1812 and 54'40'' or fight. I'm sure we'll get over MAGA.

I think those things called NORAD and NATO would say otherwise.

Does it work for the Israelis? For the Swedes?

Which is a valid argument. I suspect that if Canada went to some form of PR, we'd see the party system change and fracture as governments became more about coalitions and less about seeking a majority.

I like the idea of senators being drawn from provincial parties as they would not be beholden to the Federal party leader. PMO can whip caucus, especially in a majority, but would have to convince the Senate on the bill.

Concur. What Canada really needs is a functional upper house. Mulroney tried to fix it with a Constitutional Convention, and got stuffed by the electorate (convention was wrapped up in provincial issues). Harper tried to fix it by circumventing a Constitutional Convention, and got stuffed by the...

What would we have gotten out of this? Election Year:Real Result/Strict PR Result 1993: LPC majority/LPC minority 1997: LPC majority/LPC minority 2000: LPC majority/LPC minority 2004: LPC minority/LPC minority 2006: CPC minority/CPC minority 2008: CPC minority/CPC minority 2011: CPC...

Re: Quebec. It also provides 35-45 safe seats for the other parties, so its a wash for the Liberal Party. I'll post the numbers, since you appear to be struggling with this: Election Year: LPC % of total seats / LPC % of total seats excluding Quebec 1993 (LPC majority): 60%/72% 1997 (LPC...

Why use AI? It's a simple math problem where you get the percentage of LPC seats in the election and then take Quebec's seats away and get that percentage. It took me 60 seconds. Your statement that the Cons would dominate isn't supported by the math because GTA and the 905 belt are the true...

I just ran the numbers for 2026. With Quebec, the Liberals won 49% of the total seats available. Without Quebec, they would have won 47% of the total seats available. To double check, I ran Justin Trudeau's 2015 majority win through the same test. With Quebec, the Liberals won 54% of the seats...

That was more policy than capacity. 1 and 2 Div were created in 1939. 3 Div Iwas authorized in 1940 after the fall of France. So, the answer is in the middle - we don't need mass now, but we should have the ability to create mass fairly quickly if required.

5.56mm is hard to expend unless you are wasting it. It is a nature of ammo that is always around in large numbers at end fiscal year. PWT 3 is not a good benchmark as not all members of that CBG are Reservists.

Yes, I like his term "frag war" - we need to be thinking about protection from frag producing munitions, an not jugs of HME under a culvert. Our perception of PPE has come a long way - when I did my battleschool, patrolling was done bareass with two mags in pockets and the old robin hood hat.

That was the most impressive sales pitch for a piece of kit I've ever seen. Good to see old "webbing belts" are still evolving to make a soldier's life just a little bit easier.

Constable Miranda's spouse was Constable H.D. Constable Miranda was found to have forced himself on Complaintant, who was engaged to Constable X while they were at a house party of Constable D.A and Constable D.R., who were married. Constable Miranda also told Constable X, his buddy and the...

Not high ranking, but what is amusing in this synopsis is trying to untangle all the relationships - it's like this detachment decided to keep everything in the family. https://decisions.rcmp.gc.ca/rcmp/c/en/item/520963/index.do#_Toc217385016

Its being billed as a way to reduce GOFO ranks, specifically 4* positions, but some of those positions are not reducable based on the scope of the command - e.g. SACEUR/EUCOM Comd can't be reduced to a 3*.

Consider it akin to the making of the DotComs, or the smashing of all of them into CJOC, but with a superpower and not a small military like ours. Combatant Commanders are at times referred to as Proconsuls due to the influence they wield in their respective regions - an Ambassador is...