Let me guess, this is not their fault because:

A) They investigated him and found nothing wrong.

B) They just aren’t very good at investigating and come on! It’s hard work!

C) The police union and department is a corrupt get out of jail free card for any aspiring criminal and its well tolerated institutionally, unless you really embarrass yourself with egregiously public criminality that you are finally, reluctantly, put on political trial to face actual consequences.

I’m pretty sure that is verbatim out of the conservative party platform.

That’s all it has ever needed.

I appreciate the truth of your comment, but respectfully disagree.

1. You don’t build a defense force and strategy for the conflict you hope happens. Hubris kills.

2. Our needs include all of NATO’s needs, and to a far far smaller degree, any UN peacekeeking or similar function.

A 5th gen stealth fighter presents desirable attributes for specific purposes, but to your point they aren’t the bulk of the work to be done.

The cost saving of a single fleet of F-35 also inject various fragilities of their own. Not the least of which is the catastrophic losses from a single plane going down from anything ranging from enemy action to training accident to supply chains fuckery.

I won’t shed a single tear for the F-35 if we cancel the whole lot. But having some 5th gen makes sense. We should be going with the Brit or French led consortiums of middle powers, not US, Russia or China.

A mixed fleet is probably optimal. The Grippens are far more pragmatic to form the bulk of our fighter capability. A stealth fighter has unique benefits so keeping the 16 already committed to isn’t unreasonable until 6th gen and beyond can be procured from actual allies.

The big mistake here is going all in on 88 F-35, when the future of aerospace defense is AI drone and missile/counter-missile defense. Not just because of American backstabbing. It’s costs far exceeds its strategic value and in true Canadian fashion our defense paradigms are always one to three steps behind.

Edit: Militaries win with effective + cheap + scale. Not ultra-expensive showpieces (heh) with critical flaws that do not scale.

I miss the days when cars were affordable transportation. Now they are surveillance devices that can deliver undesirables to concentration camps or assasinate anyone with plausible deniability.

I want an EV with 1970’s features. Like this Porsche 911, but no OTA updates possible. It should be illegal.

No android. No gps. No cameras. No OTA updates. No telemetry. It’s not an electronic leash, it’s a noose.

Reasonable considering it needs to have embassy levels of security. It ain’t cheap. I’m fine with the costs and would love to stop embarassing ourselves with penny pinching.

Well naturally. That is the whole point. Conservatives don’t want to help people, they want them dead as cheaply and expeditiously as possible. Opioids are the perfect tool. It makes our underclasses a self-solving problem.

What agreement? Trump breaks every deal, repeatedly.

Silly rabbits, safety nets are for the rich.

Tarion take action? Lol! I’ll believe it when I see it.

She wants to know how much dirt we have on her already.

Wise.

They are the threat. They want profits and misery and denial of care. Litteral blood money. All the cons and ~ half the libs.

America wants to do business in Canada but not pay taxes and abide by our laws? Fine. Time for a great firewall and ban their services.

Let’s speed up our de-integration. Time to cut out the tumour.

The Canadian civil defense force of 300,000 or so are going to need more than 30,000 rifles.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/sweden-and-finland-want-citizens-to-be-prepared-for-war-should-canada-do-the-same/

Colt Canada is owned by CZ now. Czech, not American.

By taxing the rich? No? Oh.

Our targets were just a hollow appeasement/stall tactic. We never even tried to meet our targets.

Don’t have kids.

If conservatives didn’t have feckless hypocrisy there would only be silence.

Degrowth! It’s here, it’s now, it’s how, it’s wow!