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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....
 
“Soldiers” heh.

I remember cringing whilst watching the members of the naval boarding party being laboriously winched down to the Katie’s deck one by one. Compare that to Huron’s boarding team being taught fast roping by RMs out of Gibraltar while transiting to the Gulf in ‘91. Although they never used it.

A perishable skill methinks.

Fast roping is way easier and faster though, so that's no good ;)
 
Wondering if I missed the announcement - PSPC has created an ADM for "Defence Procurement Review".

The incumbent was, a year ago, assistant secretary to Cabinet in PCO.
It's funny how quiet things go if you ask PSPC what the cost/delays of their programs are on procurements, or ask ISED what the cost is for including their contract requirements for ITBs. Even just in reporting it can add a few PYEs for tracking Canadian content and locations.

This is probably why I stopped getting inviting to some meetings!
 
It's funny how quiet things go if you ask PSPC what the cost/delays of their programs are on procurements, or ask ISED what the cost is for including their contract requirements for ITBs. Even just in reporting it can add a few PYEs for tracking Canadian content and locations.

This is probably why I stopped getting inviting to some meetings!
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I explained how The FAA, Green Procurement, Indigenous Procurement, PSPC, ISED, and TB worked to my teenager this morning, as she asked why it was taking 6 months to do repairs on the LaSalle Cauaeway.

The colour drained from her face when I told her we used that same contracting model to buy everything from Fighter Jets to Office Furniture. Her response?

"I'm not even paying taxes yet and that is making me angry."
 
I explained how The FAA, Green Procurement, Indigenous Procurement, PSPC, ISED, and TB worked to my teenager this morning, as she asked why it was taking 6 months to do repairs on the LaSalle Cauaeway.

The colour drained from her face when I told her we used that same contracting model to buy everything from Fighter Jets to Office Furniture. Her response?

"I'm not even paying taxes yet and that is making me angry."
I have come to come to the conclusion that either every Sci Fi movie I watched in the eighties was seen as "that looks great" and they now use it a how to manual or I was just a very small minority said that looks terrible lets not do that. I thought they were warnings.....But now I can see they were just spoilers.

Modern Government is using this movie as their basis now

 
“Soldiers” heh.

I remember cringing whilst watching the members of the naval boarding party being laboriously winched down to the Katie’s deck one by one. Compare that to Huron’s boarding team being taught fast roping by RMs out of Gibraltar while transiting to the Gulf in ‘91. Although they never used it.

A perishable skill methinks.
I thought I heard at the time that it was JTF2 that conducted that op? Or was a regular naval boarding party?
 
“Soldiers” heh.

I remember cringing whilst watching the members of the naval boarding party being laboriously winched down to the Katie’s deck one by one. Compare that to Huron’s boarding team being taught fast roping by RMs out of Gibraltar while transiting to the Gulf in ‘91. Although they never used it.

A perishable skill methinks.

In good weather, it makes for great PR shots ;)

 
I explained how The FAA, Green Procurement, Indigenous Procurement, PSPC, ISED, and TB worked to my teenager this morning, as she asked why it was taking 6 months to do repairs on the LaSalle Cauaeway.

The colour drained from her face when I told her we used that same contracting model to buy everything from Fighter Jets to Office Furniture. Her response?

"I'm not even paying taxes yet and that is making me angry."
I see you also like to watch the world burn
 
A couple of areas for Canada to spend money it doesn't have.



Is Canada or NORAD in the IBCS business?
 

Germany to hit Nato spending target next year​

Germany will hit Nato’s spending target next year, its foreign minister has said.
Annalena Baerbock told a meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels that the country would spend at least two per cent of its GDP on military expenditure in 2024.
Germany has not met the target since 1991, the year the reunification of West and East Germany was completed.


A Green minister at that.
 
Maybe Canada and Canadians need a swift kick in the ass to wake up to what’s going on. Something along the lines of getting dropped from the G7 group of nations in favour of, say, Australia, having the Five Eyes reduced to four. etc.
I also suspect that as soon as the cuts got announced that certain phone lines started buzzing from allies.
we need to be kicked out of the associations we value most for profit. and not allowed back in until we pony up the funds like all the other
We all knew JTs hints were like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown to kick.
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bang on
 
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