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Are you suggesting that instead of trying to raise counter-tariffs or export taxes, we should be looking at ways to raise his blood pressure?

Not just them. The most popular light truck in North America too: the Ford F-150 built in Oakville. It's simply not possible for the big three (and everybody else, for that matter) to retool the plants on either side of the border so that they locally produce all the various models of a given...

Yep! As they say: "When you are dealing with a bully, violence never solved anything ... if you don't hit him hard enough."

That's interesting that you would have a deficit of $60B when the total two way trade in agricultural sector is $74B. The actual figure is a US deficit of about $10B, mostly because of their insatiable taste for beef and bacon. On the car front, the interesting figures are as follows: Total...

Source?

Yes. I forgot that we now have this (IMHO ridiculous) dichotomy between "force generating" and "force employment" responsibilities when it comes to operations, and that those plans are now allegedly firmly in the hands of CJOC. That didn't exist in my days: the Navy had its own Op Plans. I now...

Stupid question here for the flyers: How fast could Canada acquire, say, a dozen Grippen from Sweden, in a deal where we would be able to sell them back to the Swedish Air Force at a discount? We are about to get our first F-35 and we have "pre-ordered" the second batch of them. So what if we...

Which is why, when we updated them in the mid 90's, we did it with senior reservists over about three years. A year and a half to update the plans and then ran through a couple of CPX's in each coastal defense region to check them out, and corrected them accordingly before putting them away and...

The plan I am talking about were revised and updated roughly every ten years, and had been so since WWII, when I worked on them. Seeing as some of the work of the MCDV's and now the AOPV/ORCA I can observe incorporate training that I can see derive from those plans, I can only assume that it's...

Aye! There is, and its not what you mention. I don't know how you do things in the Army, but in the Navy, we have a whole bunch of contingency plans for all sorts of things, the are called (or used to be called) MAOP's (Maritime Operations Plans). And there is one for Harbour Defense, and there...

The only massive tariffs charged to their great farmers are the very high ones on milk, eggs and chicken if and only if they go over their quota, which they never reach anyway. If that's an irritant to him, then perfect: That's a place to hit right now. His incoming tariffs are supposed to...

Things, as they often do here, spin out in all directions out of a small news item. In particular, we have lots of Army and Air Force friends that see "nice boats" and suddenly, the CAF just has to have them. However, that is putting the cart before the horse. Everything at the strategic...

That deserves an answer. But I cannot give it right now (time constraint). I'll get back to you on that in the next few days.

Well, that's not that clear anymore, is it ;).

See the part in yellow. Once again: Just as it is for amphibious operations, if the Army expresses no interest whatsoever, the Navy will concentrate on its primary operations. When, and only when, the Army tells the governement ''listen, we think we need to be able to do this and that, but we...

It didn't take long: By 1975 we were back to wearing trade badges on the collar. I was issued with my anchors right after Summer program. The next year 1976, we got the command badges to wear on the pocket.

As do I, my friend. But neither of us has decided to stand for Parliament.

He'll threaten to bomb Iceland.

OK. Let's try to get a few facts injected into this, so people learn a few things about US carrier operations. First of all, there is little in terms of difference between the "cushy" deployments and "major combat operations". At most, you will have a slightly increased tempo of launches and...

When has there not been political reasons behind any procurement decision?