If this was last year sure, but the last several months we have been putting money where our mouth is, so the timing of these comments is odd for sure. One look at DLRs sharepoint and we can see a lot of projects happening now, and expensive ones at that. Starting next year, there will be major renewal in the CAF.
No. We haven't. We have continued to write promissory notes for delivery after Trump, and Vance/Rubio, leave office in the 2030s.
Other countries are building stuff, buying stuff, trying stuff. We are setting the conditions for eventually doing stuff.
We are moving at Canada's usual glacial pace. That pace is beloved of our bureaucrats and politicians because it allows them to believe "it will never happen" and they can continue with life as usual.
We are trying to get a 1,000,000 barrel a day pipeline to tidewater, 1200 km or so, by 2033, give or take. Presumably Ottawa is hoping both Smith and Eby will be gone, along with Trump and Carney.
Meanwhile AbuDhabi's CONDA initiated a 4 million barrel a day, 340 km, pipeline to bypass Hormuz, in late 2024. They expect to start punping in 2027. 2 to 3 years.
The same rationale goes into ships and planes. If they stretch it out long enough the demand signal will pass.
Chretien signed on to the F35 in 1997. 30 years ago. When Fly By Wire, which both permitted unstable designs to fly and made drones more practical, was in its infancy.
Our bureaucrats are masters of the dawdle.
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