It isn’t just the Right that is self-parodying these days.
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I don’t see how this helps, unless we not going to spend that money or spend less of the money. If we spend that money elsewhere, then its 100% useless to me. We obviously do not have the ability to spend this money here or else we would already be doing it.
That ability is increasing, and as a policy change it will definitely increase it. My concern is that military procurement has been a mess in Canada for years, and the government is generally not particularly good at managing these mega projects. A mega project in military procurement is going to be a ripe opportunity for some pork barrel. However, it is not as if military procurement in the US is not stuffed to the gills with absurdly overpriced boondoggles - all things being equal I guess I would rather buy $300 hammers from Bombardier than Raytheon.
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Coucou France is over here 
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Trump will be out of office way, way before this will come to fruition. I would still want them to do this anyway to future proof. What will probably happen is we will spend a few billion on the concept and then scrap the idea and raise/create a tax/debt in order to fund the wasted money.
I actually know someone in military procurement and can confirm that they feel exactly the same way. They would be forced to buy something from a “supplier” that does not specialize in cold weather equipment, and then have to spend another 25% of purchase price to winterize it.
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In 2023, I did a canoe day trip near Shawinigan with a friend who works in Quebec City. He made reservations for a dinner on the way home at a restaurant he raved about - I joked about how good could poutine really be. What happened is a love letter from my home province, canoeing the late Spring high water on a fantastic river, then driving to an astonishing meal. I was absolutely blown away, exquisite cuisine in a village in the middle of the Laurentian forest.
I was delighted to see this today. We’d probably have to change clothes today though.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/benabed-restaurant-auberge-michelin-9.7200526
Particular nod to the power of immigration to enrich our society. Born in Quebec, parents came from Morocco.
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There’s some big news out here in BC how a band just took a couple hundred square KM out of the crown lands for their own. Not the land that is important, it’s the victory in the courts which will have a precedent
Couple of drunk natives showed up in our campfire the other night talking shit about “getting off their land”, the ruckus that started isn’t publishable. No sense in trying to have a discussion at 2am with that lot
This the Cowichan ruling, or another one?
No that just opened the floodgates. It’s becoming a punchline now
35,000 sq km…this area is fucking huge and it’s the largest recreational fishery region in the province.
Billie Eilish approves of this.
Silly, this country is overly apologetic and guilt ridden. A sensible middle ground is considered bigoted.