Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[dimsum]

Well here is the big Halifax announcement. Basically, an office. LOL.

Look to be doing something but in reality, doing less than nothing! Liberals are awesome!

On second thought...spend money on offices and civil service is very important coming vote time. So success!

MSN

I think you may be surprised how much NATO consists of "offices".

Also, from the media advisory, NATO Chair of the Military Committee was also going to be there. Of course the announcement was going to be NATO-centric.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I think you may be surprised how much NATO consists of "offices".

Also, from the media advisory, NATO Chair of the Military Committee was also going to be there. Of course the announcement was going to be NATO-centric.

And the ironic thing about innovation is that it doesn't come from a centralized program in a building, in Halifax or elsewhere, so it will be a waste of time and money

Innovation Is Everyone’s Business​

Innovation Is Everyone’s Business

Offering employees the tools and motivation to create ideas is the key to an innovative organisation.

knowledge.insead.edu

 

[kev994]

Well here is the big Halifax announcement. Basically, an office. LOL.

Look to be doing something but in reality, doing less than nothing! Liberals are awesome!

On second thought...spend money on offices and civil service is very important coming vote time. So success!

MSN

Oh good, somewhere to put all the extra people

 

[dimsum]

Oh good, somewhere to put all the extra people

I'd be surprised if many CAF members get posted there.

But if they did - do they get NATO pay?

 

[Kirkhill]

So Champagne was busy today?

The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry

Related - Canada announces new ministry of creativity. Beatings will continue until all Canadians are more creative.

 

[dimsum]

Related - Canada announces new ministry of creativity. Beatings will continue until all Canadians are more creative.

Link? I don't see it when I Googled.

 

[Kirkhill]

Meanwhile

Canadian Armed Forces to enhance engagement with Indo-Pacific, Trudeau says

Canadian Armed Forces to enhance engagement with Indo-Pacific, Trudeau says​

Canada is serious

Last week, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said diplomats in Asia have told her about "the issue of Canada not always being a reliable partner, because sometimes we show up, and then we leave, and then we go back."

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha noted that sporadic engagement Thursday when he welcomed Trudeau to his Bangkok residence.

"This is the first visit for you as a prime minister," Prayut said through an interpreter.

"I hope that this visit, this particularly short one, will be as memorable" as the one Trudeau made in his youth, Prayut said.

Trudeau seemed to contradict Joly's framing Friday.

"Canada is serious about this, this region, we have always been," he sai

Trudeau has one pal

He also met with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who said she's keen to partner with Canada when Trudeau releases the regional strategy.

Ardern said she agreed with much of what of Trudeau said in closed-door APEC discussions.

“Listening to the interventions in the room, you can hear the many areas in which we're like-minded; where we have the same anxieties, where we have the same aspirations," she said.

Jobs for Canadians overseas cost money.

Canada's participation in the APEC gathering ended with a pledge of nearly $183 million in new funding over five years to strengthen ties to the region, part of the Indo-Pacific strategy the Liberals have finally started rolling out.

That includes $92.5 million to create about 60 new jobs, both at Canada's missions in the region and within Global Affairs Canada.

"This will increase Canada's presence here on the ground (and) deepen diplomatic ties to build and maintain the important relationships that we are creating," International Trade Minister Mary Ng said Friday.

There is also $45 million for trade missions and about $32 million to set up Canada's first agricultural office.

The Energy Word Salad continues

Before Trudeau was pulled aside to discuss North Korea's move with other leaders, he announced that Ottawa will spend $13.5 million to launch a team in Canada and Asia to form energy partnerships.

"The need for clean energy and green infrastructure is also growing at a rapid pace here in the Indo-Pacific," Trudeau said in his opening remarks at the news conference before taking questions from reporters.

"As the world moves towards net zero, there is enormous potential to grow our ties in the natural resources sector."

While Trudeau previously spoke about expanding natural gas exports to Japan and Korea, his office said he also wants to exchange natural resources with India, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Taiwan.

I'm reminded of the Mediaeval Warm Period, that inconvenient truth that hindered the selling of the Global Warming Crisis. The Michael Mann solution was to make it disappear by scribbling over it. Lots of data released so that the historically acknowledged inflection disappeared - signal buried in noise.

I sense a Liberal Inflection Period. Lots of noise.

 

[Kirkhill]

Link? I don't see it when I Googled.

Look under Australian Philosophers Club.

 

[Brad Sallows]

"Ministry of Creativity". Truly? Has the requirement for grants to people to do work that no-one wants to pay for become that large?

 

[daftandbarmy]

How dare this guy talk about our Prime Minister like that


Why do so many incompetent men become leaders, and what can we do about it?

Why do so many incompetent men become leaders? And what can we do about it?

 

[Brad Sallows]

A little while ago I was thinking about how replaceable our leaders are. Losing one is no big deal. Our choices prove that our standards aren't that high, so there is a large population of potential replacements. So at least there's that.

 

[Kirkhill]

A little while ago I was thinking about how replaceable our leaders are. Losing one is no big deal. Our choices prove that our standards aren't that high, so there is a large population of potential replacements. So at least there's that.

Lottery -

 

[McG]

Canada has been promising to do more gore a while now, but our capability has been moving in the opposite direction. We’ve made force development assumptions that there would never be a war between first world nations, and we would never actually have to do heavy lifting to be a lead-nation (the US would always be there for that, right?).

Canada could not mount a whole Haiti mission even if it wanted to

The Canadian Armed Forces don’t have enough troops to make up the backbone of a force for a mission in Haiti

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[GR66]

Canada has been promising to do more gore a while now, but our capability has been moving in the opposite direction. We’ve made force development assumptions that there would never be a war between first world nations, and we would never actually have to do heavy lifting to be a lead-nation (the US would always be there for that, right?).

Canada could not mount a whole Haiti mission even if it wanted to

The Canadian Armed Forces don’t have enough troops to make up the backbone of a force for a mission in Haiti

www.theglobeandmail.com

Makes you wonder how we'll manage increase our eFP Latvia commitment to a full Brigade.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Makes you wonder how we'll manage increase our eFP Latvia commitment to a full Brigade.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Rock soup.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

Makes you wonder how we'll manage increase our eFP Latvia commitment to a full Brigade.

Bring in more pissed off Spaniards and Italians who already think we're freeloadong assholes?

 

[McG]

Bring in more pissed off Spaniards and Italians who already think we're freeloadong assholes?

I am sure they will eventually announce that they each will lead their own battle groups. It’s not a brigade if it only holds one multinational battle group.

 

[Good2Golf]

It’s not a brigade if it only holds one multinational battle group.

Canada:

 

[calculus]

Meanwhile, Sweden joins the 2% club, and they aren't even in NATO yet: WEB EXCLUSIVE: Sweden to Move Deadline Up for NATO’s 2% GDP Threshold Requirement

hen will this Liberal government get the picture?