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Once again I admire your attempt to apply a rational and logical framework to a political discussion.

GST replaced hidden taxes - it was always present, just not visible. Marginal rates have decreased over time. CPP has moved from a "gather some money, spend as we go and assume away the future" to "invest for the future to make the program sustainable".

And a RWS?

Which GoC reopened the file? Which one will claim credit and shift blame? You are applying a logical, rational framework. Not a political one. And if the parties were flipped, behaviour would be the same. Lizards gonna lizard, after all...

ERI is a win win win that the unions refuse to accept as a win. It lets the GoC shed personnel, it lets employees retire earlier without pension penalties, and it draws down an unpermitted actuarial surplus in the PS pension plan.

Parliament votes to appropriate funding for the operation of th government of Canada. Within DND, it's divided (big picture) into four types (with lots of sub-divisions that are not directly on Parliament's radar): Vote 1: operations and maintenance. Includes most pay, low value items, and...

aka the challenge of regulated professions in the CAF.

Most of the decisions that will be relitigated happened under the Harper government. If you think that won't play into the decision space - an opportunity for the LPC to condemn the CPC for not caring about the CAF...

Buying them would have meant carving out capital (vote 5) from other projects; leasing means it's vote 1 (usually). Lots of bad decisions are driven by types of funding and when they are available.

She's no Amor de Cosmos but then, who is?

That's not a nice thing to say about a CANFORGEN.

The F-35 schmozzle is not a procurement / project / capability development initiative that has covered its participants in glory.

There is a charities register. Very useful website; you can see (big picture) what charities do with their money.

Canada has not cancelled or cut any orders. Canada discussed fleet sizes, but made no written commitment to the JPO for 88 aircraft.

The documentation provided cites his court martial - para 15; and that he was released from the CAF - para 17.

@brihard kindly shared an appeal court ruling that explained his conviction for participating in a pyramid scheme. https://www.canlii.org/fr/qc/qcca/doc/1995/1995canlii5191/1995canlii5191.html Other online sources suggest there was a later out of court settlement that saw CMR award him his degree.

I am saying that someone convicted should show some bare minimum of remorse.

A young man who leveraged a position of responsibility within a military college to get junior personnel to enter into a pyramid scheme is not a paragon of virtue to be emulated. When he declines t odiscuss it, one may infer certain things about him and his character.

https://frankmag.ca/2023/07/55152/

Foreign interference by charities? Time to get the CRA involved.