Innovation

[Good2Golf]

There, FTYF

Defence Budget​

• The Department of National Defence (DND) is the second largest department within the federal government in terms of budget and the largest in terms of size. In 2023-24, DND’s budget accounted for approximately 6.1% of the total Main Estimates for Canada.

Defence Budget - Canada.ca

Transition of the Associate Deputy Minister of National Defense – June 12, 2023

www.canada.ca

There’s a very large amount of creativity in that single statement.

Size? WGAF? And that’s not even true unless you pretend that the Federal Public Service, at 367,000…430% the size of the CAF’s 85,000 (63,000 RegF/22,000 PRes) doesn’t count as a ‘Department’ (weasel words for sure, if someone says it’s not a de facto department).

Budget? 2nd largest? Discretionary budget at best, and conveniently keeps separate the Dept of Crown-Indigenous Relations & Northern Affairs and Dept of Indian Affairs, which together have a larger budget than DND, and the Depts of Finance (4.5x bigger than DND), Economic and Social Development (3x bigger than DND), etc. but they are less wholly discretionary (slushy fundy)…More weasel words/assessment…

The key factor that a Federal Government never says openly is DNd is the biggest chunk of money that it can direct/imfkuence/control where the money is spent, than any other chunk of money

 

[Kirkhill]

I really don’t understand why you keep saying that given their IRD Budgets dwarf the CAF budget.

The efforts to innovate are predicated on maintaining their pre-eminence. They work to maintain the status quo.

The Ukrainians innovate to disrupt.