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Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

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I have long said that you could fund the CAF to 4 percent of GDP, but we would still lag behind in NATO and be much the same where we are.

It's never the money, it's politics. It's procedures. It's the pork-barreling in our defence spending that makes us a paper tiger in NATO.

My only hope in all of this for the CAF and the GoC, whatever the political stripe that may be, is that it will rouse them out of the "Peace Dividend" slumber. The world has been unstable since 1945. We have used geography, proximity, and association as a Defence Policy ever since. ICBMs don't care how close to the U.S. or how far from Russia/China we are.

Don't give us a dime more, but let us spend money on defence like it matters. The fact we follow the same rules for purchasing a fighter aircraft as we do for buying office furniture for a Service Canada office is disgraceful. Don't treat defense procurement as a stimulus package for Canadian Industry. There I said it.

We spend so much money, time, and effort trying to get that money to stay in Canada; be it by awarding contracts to companies with no capability to produce items without first "retooling" and"developing the production lines", or by hamstringing perfectly competent and competitive bidders by forcing the project to be made in St. Margaret de Poutain de Champignon, QC because the ruling government either lost the seat in the election, or won it with promises.

We spend so much money and staff hours jumping through TBS regulations that are great for other departments, but are terrible for defence procurement. Some items you have to sole source, because there are technologies and capabilities no one else makes. By doing the bid process, you get companies clamoring for a project they can't deliver on, but because they tick the bright boxes on the score sheet....

I truly and honestly belief we need to split from PSPC and legislate that its not beholden to TBS, only to the PBO/PCO. The guiding principles of this new Defence Procurement department should be "Off the shelf, from somewhere else" if there isn't an industry in Canada.

BOOTFORGEN has demonstrated how well we do when we are able to actually get what we need, instead of lining the pockets of a Canadian company that got lucky.

That, but with tanks, fighters, ships, weapons systems....
 
Where can I buy that?
I just remembered, If you can't find the Löwensenf, then the Kühne Sweet Bavarian is pretty good too. The one on the left is the export version, the one on the right is the German domestic version.

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Should also be available at most grocery stores over there.

And while we're on the topics of eggs and hot sauce, try soft boiled eggs and a mustard sauce some time. :giggle:

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OK Alice beckons down the rabbit hole.....

French Toast

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In it or on it? In the mixture, vanilla. On the finished product, (real) maple syrup.
Forget HP, get some Maritime Madness Simple Lime + Cilantro. It's hot sauce that makes everything better.

Hot sauce on eggs is a life changer.

275ml Simple Lime + Cilantro Hot Sauce
According to my system, hot sauce on anything is a "changer" for the next several hours, at least. A buddy once mixed in chili sauce with the scambled eggs he was serving for breakfast. He just assumed everybody ate them that way. Since we were kicking off a week-long m/c trip, I figured that's the least my butt needs.


Epic thread deviation!
 
In it or on it? In the mixture, vanilla. On the finished product, (real) maple syrup.

According to my system, hot sauce on anything is a "changer" for the next several hours, at least. A buddy once mixed in chili sauce with the scambled eggs he was serving for breakfast. He just assumed everybody ate them that way. Since we were kicking off a week-long m/c trip, I figured that's the least my butt needs.


Epic thread deviation!


I was raised on savoury French Toast - with Lea and Perrins.

Sweet French Toast, dusted with sugar and drizzled with maple syrup just never seemed right.

One thing these deviations seem to do is lower the temperature. For that alone, and the entertainment value, they are worth tolerating.
 
Any informed thoughts on what MND is announcing tomorrow in Halifax? P-8s? 😉
 
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