Quirky
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Canada doesn’t matter to the rest of the world - and it’s our own fault
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“Canadian Forces takes jobs from local businesses” isn’t a great headline.
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There are probably only enough military structures techs to build a dozen houses per year (and I am being generous), if they did absolutely nothing else.
Still, it might be a cool DP1 project for them to completely build a house per year..
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Probably concerns over lead paint and or asbestos.
All the NATO countries also had exemptions of one was serving in (or had served) one’s other (NATO) country of citizenship.
Didn't it take a while for Italy to agree to an exemption? I seem to recall that when we were in Lahr in the early 70s there were guys who couldn't deploy with their units to Italy for that reason.
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Not sure, I just know that by the mid 80’s that it was solved.
Quirky
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Might as well privatize the entire CAF, if those are the headlines.
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Royal Artillery was/is basically a bunch of mercenaries.
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Well the good news is, the media is starting to make canadians pay attention a bit more
www.hilltimes.com
www.thestar.com
The bad news is, none of it is good stories
The Canadian military is in worse shape than the numbers indicate
Apologists will dismiss this crisis as a common challenge to maintain a peacetime army, but these can hardly be considered peaceful times.
www.hilltimes.com
How Canada's military fell into crisis — and why failing to save it has deep consequences for us all
Canada's military is facing a series of problems that without a serious infusion of cash and attention from the federal government could threaten our standing n a more unpredictable world.
www.thestar.com
The bad news is, none of it is good stories
Halifax Tar
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Its bad if the Star is calling for more cash for the CAF.
Quirky
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Well the good news is, the media is starting to make canadians pay attention a bit more
The Canadian military is in worse shape than the numbers indicate
Apologists will dismiss this crisis as a common challenge to maintain a peacetime army, but these can hardly be considered peaceful times.
How Canada's military fell into crisis — and why failing to save it has deep consequences for us all
Canada's military is facing a series of problems that without a serious infusion of cash and attention from the federal government could threaten our standing n a more unpredictable world.
The bad news is, none of it is good stories
Aren't we underspending our defense budget as-is? Is more money without a clear direction really the solution here.
They should be buying more ammunition and munitions with the un spent money.
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The problem isn't the money it self, it's TB and the restrictions on how fast we can spend it.
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Much of the underspending is delays in acquisition, where payments end up being made in future years. In those cases, the cash is reprofiled to future years (and the depreciation of the acquired assets is also deferred).
Actual lapsed funding is less (and there are provisions to carry some of that money forward, too).
Actual lapsed funding is less (and there are provisions to carry some of that money forward, too).
I beg to differ. Shows up the Weasel-in-chief for what he is and it makes it harder to use words only to satisfy the reader. Finally, the stories will devolve onto the next government as well
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Paywalls unfortunatelyWell the good news is, the media is starting to make canadians pay attention a bit more
The Canadian military is in worse shape than the numbers indicate
Apologists will dismiss this crisis as a common challenge to maintain a peacetime army, but these can hardly be considered peaceful times.
How Canada's military fell into crisis — and why failing to save it has deep consequences for us all
Canada's military is facing a series of problems that without a serious infusion of cash and attention from the federal government could threaten our standing n a more unpredictable world.
The bad news is, none of it is good stories
FJAG
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Strikes me as a perfect job for an RCE vertical construction company or two. Excellent training for deployments.
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Also manufacturing facilities and things like the basic precursors to do large scale productions. I'm always a bit skeptical of 'strategic supply production' when we import vice make some of the basics anymore like specialty steel etc. Some of those aren't made in Canada because of the environmental restrictions being so strict that it's really not anywhere close to economically feasible to make, and can't make artillery shells if you import things to make the propellant and someone decides they are going to ban their export you rely on because they need it to ramp up their own production.
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Different kinds of money; usually it's capitol money that gets delayed for spending later for various reasons, so isn't actually 'unspent'. More like if you were building a house and had payment milestones, you aren't going to pay for the framing job on a date if it's not done yet.
For NP funds, which have that 'cinderella clause' and are only allocated by the fiscal year, usually the unspent funds happens near the end of the year, because something doesn't deliver as expected (or they don't invoice on time). My favourite is when you don't get project funding released until September, so you can't commit to things, and then weirdly companies can't turn something around in less then 6 months as well as if you had 12 months. Usually there is a lot of internal juggling and overplanning so money doesn't get used, but it's a lot of juggling.
Some line items also have contingency for things like extra fuel costs or whatever, so actually should go unspent unless 'shit happens'.
If they want munitions that needs planning and contracts in place, so would need dedicated funding, and not soemthing you can just throw money at with short time frames (within GoC contract terms) and expect things to happen. If we went the opposite way and wandered around with suitcases of cash it might get some results, but would probably get a lot of scams that didn't actually deliver anything (see a lot of UK Covid contracts for examples of what happens when governments ignore all contracting rules.
The government has stated they will CUT the budget.
Eluding that the money can not be spent.
Reallocate the money and buy munitions and ammo.
Or heaven forbid buy a few tanks.
I would rather have ammo and munitions then turn money back in.
If the money is not spent then they should automatically reallocate it to spending.
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