Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Czech_pivo]

I think all options should be explored for spouses of CAF members in order to promote their employment opportunities.

Absolutely - radical suggestion I know will upset some people, instead of forcing public servants to return to office, there seems to be indication that it's productivity increased with working from home. So make as many PS jobs that can be done from home, able to be done from home. We reduce traffic and fixed office costs. Given preference to hiring military spouses and you now open a huge chunk of PS jobs to military spouses who can be moved around without consequence to their position. In addition to opening up PS jobs to the rest of the country. Enable more remote work opportunities for uniform members too for positions where the physical location doesn't matter so much, so for someone who may have otherwise been posted to Ottawa can stay where they were posted before. Most uniform jobs won't be remote friendly, but there are some that are and could help keep those members geographically stable.

 

[Quirky]

5,000 workers, cafeteria, Starbucks, gym, work stations, lounges, shared kitchen spaces

CAF would build something like that, give it to CFHA and they’ll charge a single member $1500/month without rations.

I think all options should be explored for spouses of CAF members in order to promote their employment opportunities.

That only works if employment is available in the first place. Biggest thing is to let members stay at their base and don’t force promote&post. Let them decide between waiting for the next rank to open up locally or take something elsewhere. CAF is still addicted to the old policy of postings, spouses these days have professional careers and often times the education and salary is higher than the CAF member. Resetting seniority of one spouse every 3-5 years because postings, doesn’t fly with the missing middle anymore.

 

[HavokFour]

And this is via small underground factories and basements, in a country under constant bombardment. Now imagine how many a proper production line could pump out for the CAF and export to allies. I hope Bill Blair is paying attention.

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[Colin Parkinson]

As opposed to the exemplary way the government maintained the H Blocks and PMQs?

Any system is subject to abuse.

My concern with those camps is what is their shelf-life? For that matter what is the shelf-life of any structure? Any building, like any ship, needs regular refreshing and, ultimately, regular replacing. Nothing stands still.

Portable camps and mobile homes buy you a decade or so, but can be used to solve immediate problems while you do a good job on the more permanent structures. Now for mobile homes, you could just replace them on a decade long basis, particularly on bases which might change size in the near future.

 

[lenaitch]

Stick-built, modular, engineered, towed in on wheels, etc. doesn't matter if it isn't a family friendly place to live. The missus and kids won't be thrilled stuck in something resembling a base camp.

you could just replace them on a decade long basis,

Did you type that with a straight face?

spouses these days have professional careers

Agreed. In years gone by, spousal employment, where it existed, was often a 'job' vs a profession.