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If there was ever a case for Bill 15, it would be speeding up the rebuilding
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Just because you have air superiority in an area of operation 1000 miles from your borders doesn't mean you can casually take and hold territory there
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In general? No
This ODNI? Maybe
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Ah, the not sures drown out the actual responses (not a surprise) but didn't get reported in the headline snap shot
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What did the greens do to earn their leader a -7?
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At least the first of the two. Far too many are more invested in what happens south of the border than are in Canada. Or worse interpret what happe s in Canada through the lense of American politics
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Based on some of the commentary I've seen about Canada getting to 2%, a lot of Canadians don't know what that term means
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You'd probably have to get NavCan and/or Fisheries and Oceans to reclassify that water way before you could build a bridge that didn't have an impractical elevation change
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There is also a public and democratic interest in not clogging up the ballot with 80+ candidates that are not seriously interested in representing the riding but instead doing it as a stunt. A refundable $500 deposit stikes a balance between those competing interests
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0.1% of the vote is the threshold.
If you don't feel confident you can get one tenth of one percent of the vote, why even run?
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It's a refundable deposit, not a tax
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Seems pretty reasonable for each candidate in a riding to have their own official agent.
Different candidates are there to offer voters choices, but that is undermined if all the candidates are coordating with each other.
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It means that Iceland is providing a value to the alliance that is in excess of 2% of its GDP. So it makes sense for NATO to defend Iceland. But you can't extrapolate that situation to Canada.
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Iceland is strategically important and is the linchpin of the defense of the Atlantic and keeping the supply lines between North America and Europe open.
It's not a generally applicable situation
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Not just buying replacements for existing capabilities but acquiring new ones suitedto the operational environment of 2025 is a positive sign that the gov is taking the file seriously
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Yeah, there is obviously an attempt to grapple with what new capabilities are required.
There are some oversights like subs and offensive drones in this. But it's not a bad start
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Although recategorizing the Coast Guard as defense spending does point to accounting gimmicks not being entirely absent
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Indeed!
And the counter drone program is pretty important too
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Bolder pitch: do that as phase 1 of a plan to turn the R5 into a skytrain and have it run under Stanley Park (with a station or 2 of course) and across first narrows
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This is ignoring just how questionable many of the choices in the Connery era are to a modern sensibility
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So no obsolete, but I suspect the era of the uncontested dominance of the carrier battle group in naval warfare is at an end
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But you'd probably need to first clear an area using smaller ships and unmanned systems before risking moving a $10B+ CVN into the area of operation
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I suspect the era of flattops is no where near over. But will evolve to be more of a drone carrier. Because it will still be very useful to be able to put an airbase off any coast line you want.
I would guess we'll see things that range from the large supercarries of today to much smaller ships
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This is why I think the solution has fo come from provincial legislation that restrict municipalities ability to load everything onto development fees. That attenuates things enough to give some level of political viability
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There are a lot of things I'd look to update in the Canadian constitution but getting rid of the monarchy doesn't make the list
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If it ain't broke don't fix it constitutionalism
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Port too
Port cities founded in the age of breakbulk are now several hundred thousand to millions. While Prince Rupert does a lot of volume now yet only has 12k or so people living there
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I'm pretty sure you made those up
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Prop rep and fixing the representation disparity might help but not if the strong party discipline remains. But it still would not be great that the primary voices for regional concerns in the country are premiers piping up on an ad hoc basis rather than having a body for regional representation
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Disagree on the unicameral.
With such a regionally diverse country there should be (more and better) regional representation in Ottawa. Reform the senate to something other than a place for partisan hacks and people who share the PM's worldview
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Nor take steps to limit the impact on others and public spaces
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The government has been asleep at the switch for years. Made just enough noises about it in the lead up to the election to cling to power but has gone right back to sleep after that