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

[FJAG]

Fredericton NB is the far end of the world ?

Yes.

It is better connected to most of the country than Kingston.

Not exactly true most of the time.

The key is to go to Kingston by train. The trip is roughly two hours from Toronto. To get to Fredericton by plane from Toronto is just short of two hours (and then there's the time to get through security etc etc.) There are very few direct links to Fredericton from anywhere else in Canada. Most need a stop over in Toronto. For anyone in southern Ontario the train trip to Kingston is far easier. Same for folks from further west (including the need to transfer from YYZ or to Union station). Neither is easily accessible. I'll grant you Air Canada is slightly more dependable than Via. But Via its cheaper.

For those in Ottawa or Petawawa, the train is 2 hours (Ottawa <-> Kingston) and the flights (Ottawa <-> Fredericton) are 1 1/2 hours (to which you need to add the preboarding times) - so easier to Kingston as well.

For folks in the armoured corps, infantry and loggies, Borden was a lot more accessible pre 1970. On the other hand, my train trip from the CFOCS in Victoria via Vancouver and the railroad to the RCSA in Shilo in the first week of December 1969 was a journey to remember.

Halifax must be a distant solar system to @FJAG

Another world maybe.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

I thought DRDC priorities were driven directly from CAF priorities and requirements.

That has not always been my experience.

Left alone scientists will study what interests them, and will be offended if redirected. The CAF often struggles to articulate problems that need to be solved, which leaves the scientists to study what they want.

Moreover, the science is often for its own sake, in that there is less than ideal focus on being able to deploy the solution they develop. They don't make fruits and vegetables and grains that can survive outside the lab. They often make hothouse flowers that cannot survive in the wild

A lot of the.blame for this rests on the CAF, but not all of it