Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[KevinB]

Any feel for which specific production line went up? I’m guessing each building on the site probably has a distinct purpose/product.

Not OS yet AFAIK, but yes. If it becomes distributable to LE I’ll send it to you.

 

[Kirkhill]

Further to...

Rifles

Denmark has been buying its rifles from Canada since 1995 when it bought C7/C8 variants complete with the Canadian sights.

It has just bought 26,000 current production models. Multiply that by the differences in national populations and you get a buy of about 200,000 rifles and carbines.

Those rifles replace a batch procured in 2016.

That batch replaced a batch procured in 2010.

That batch replaced the original 1995/96 batch.

The 1995/96 batch, along with all the others, are still in commission with the older models being usec by the conscripts, including the palace guard, and by the Home Guard.

Assuming 4 buys of 26,000 and all still held in national armouries that suggests something like 100,000 rifles. Canadianized that would be enough rifles to arm 800,000 Canadians.

Money spent on hardware and not salaries.

And this was all happening when Denmark was spending less than 2% on Defence. It was spending at Canadian levels.

 

[Kirkhill]

That than shoe horning a foreign system, you may want to push a volunteer Auxiliary to various LEA’s.

Lots of LEA’s down here have reserves and Auxiliaries.

Absolutely.

But your entire LEO community suffers from lack of uniformity. Not just their auxilliaries.

One thing that our Federal government can do in its neverending quest to make one nation out of its multicultural mess is to create a national institution that people actually want to join because they see value in it.

Not because they are coerced.

 

[Kirkhill]

Have you heard anything to suggest this may have been a deliberate act?

The local chief of police was on record as saying his investigatory standards require assuming the worst until the investigation says otherwise. So he is starting from the position that this could be intentional and it could be terrorist/foreign initiated.

 

[brihard]

Not OS yet AFAIK, but yes. If it becomes distributable to LE I’ll send it to you.

All good, I’m only curious, no real need to know. If it does turn out to have been intentional then it will make its way to my eyes in due course.

 

[MilEME09]

Further to...

Rifles

Denmark has been buying its rifles from Canada since 1995 when it bought C7/C8 variants complete with the Canadian sights.

It has just bought 26,000 current production models. Multiply that by the differences in national populations and you get a buy of about 200,000 rifles and carbines.

Those rifles replace a batch procured in 2016.

That batch replaced a batch procured in 2010.

That batch replaced the original 1995/96 batch.

The 1995/96 batch, along with all the others, are still in commission with the older models being usec by the conscripts, including the palace guard, and by the Home Guard.

Assuming 4 buys of 26,000 and all still held in national armouries that suggests something like 100,000 rifles. Canadianized that would be enough rifles to arm 800,000 Canadians.

Money spent on hardware and not salaries.

And this was all happening when Denmark was spending less than 2% on Defence. It was spending at Canadian levels.

We could sign the CMAR contract with colt yesterday and have deliveries within 6 months, we choose not to