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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....
 
Canadians are socialists man. Team Trump down South has scared them back to their natural state.

I've come to accept that my mentality and my values are not those shared by the vast majority here. #itiswhatitis
Divorce is rough, usually for the man but in this case it’s different …
 
I'm not confident it's that they are more in touch, rather it's more that the extremely unpopular leader is finally stepping down at some point.
Personally, I think it’s a double-whammy of an unpopular leader leaving and our powerful neighbour behaving like a clown with a flamethrower.

As I’ve said before, the Tories will need to up their game considerably.
 
Personally, I think it’s a double-whammy of an unpopular leader leaving and our powerful neighbour behaving like a clown with a flamethrower.

As I’ve said before, the Tories will need to up their game considerably.
The CPC has zero chance of forming the next government. They are a political party that consistently shoots itself in the in the pants and out the foot. Every time.
 
The CPC has zero chance of forming the next government. They are a political party that consistently shoots itself in the in the pants and out the foot. Every time.

I'm not sure they did this time. They haven't made and major gaffs, unless I'm being blind to something.
 
I'm not sure they did this time. They haven't made and major gaffs, unless I'm being blind to something.
The ground has shifted a lot in a short time. Whether they can adapt to changing situations will determine how they do.

Also, I would never underestimate their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
 
I'm not sure they did this time. They haven't made and major gaffs, unless I'm being blind to something.
No, I think it's mostly the leader that would be their undoing. Most people I know dislike and distrust PP. To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan either. I'd much rather have someone with some substance as opposed to a career politician. Still going to vote PC, because the Liberal government has got to go.
 
It doesn't help that they currently have a leader that who I find so annoying that I have a near overpowering urge to punch him in the face every time I either hear his voice or see him on tv.
And I consider my self a Tory supporter....
Yeah.....
 
I like CBC radio. Listen to it all the time.

There; I said it.
I visit the CBC news website nearly daily. I'm not in favour of killing the CBC, but I'm definitely not in favour of giving them more money to piss away on dumb TV shows nobody watches.

They really need to refocus on local journalism, and cut a lot of the obvious bias toward the LPC/NDP.

Also, the GoC should be smart enough to not try to sell funding the CBC as a national security issue...
 
I visit the CBC news website nearly daily. I'm not in favour of killing the CBC, but I'm definitely not in favour of giving them more money to piss away on dumb TV shows nobody watches.

So... about 80% of their programming then?

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The thing I find telling about PP's public statements about the CBC is his animosity seems only towards the English language services. SRC seems just fine with him. Hmmmm.
 
I visit the CBC news website nearly daily. I'm not in favour of killing the CBC, but I'm definitely not in favour of giving them more money to piss away on dumb TV shows nobody watches.
A massive block of the programming changes were directly downstream of, IIRC, Harper-era budget cuts. Local suffered because it's labour intensive.

Lots of personal-story radio, though, which is cheap.

At the same time, the drama side of the house appeared to catch a bad case of Safe, Canadian, and Contemporary: no Da Vinci's Inquest, say, but roll on the slice of life dramas and what appeared to be a Western romance.

And the orchestra was canned.

Don't expect there was much cutting at the management level, but that's par for the course.

Surprised there's not more (any) airtime provided for NFB material and other non-CBC CanCon.
 
I guess when you make it impossible for other broadcasters to compete, your national broadcaster does pretty well - especially in Toronto it seems ;)

 
I'm not confident it's that they are more in touch, rather it's more that the extremely unpopular leader is finally stepping down at some point.

We won't really know if they are actually connecting with voters until they have a leader and start trying to sell themselves.
The exact same thing happened in 1984 when John Turner replaced Trudeau, a bump in polls followed by a crushing defeat.
 
Divorce is rough, usually for the man but in this case it’s different …
I would like to see a more prosperous Country that harnesses its wealth of national resources. That seems to be an idea not shared by most Canadians, especially the 50% that live below this line:

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I've come to accept that we aren't going to agree on much and we have very little in common when it comes to values. It isn't very tough for me though, it's going to be a lot tougher for them when their standard of living continues to decline. I'm not too worried about my standard of living at the moment.
 
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