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Good thing nobody has suggested this strawman as actual policy.

A routine frustration I have with our politics is our left and right seeing international commitments that don't align with their politics as optional. Liberals: 2% of GDP on defence was just an aspiration. We don't need to actually do it. Conservatives: 40% below 2005 GHG levels was just...

True for plastics. Not true for metal which has a substantial market. Exactly why there are efforts to move away from plastics.

Correct. More accurately it rewards and penalizes relative to your provincial average. To be a net beneficiary, you have to consume fossil fuels less than your neighbours. That's about it.

I specifically said I wasn't discussing the politics (I am personally ambivalent on the idea). I was just explaining the mechanics of it. But some people have the impulse control of a toddler on forums.....

I know people take this as common wisdom. But I have not seen a shred of evidence to show this is actually true. Happy to be proven wrong. The anti-tax CTF says it costs $200M to administer the program. If that is actually true, that would make this, the most efficient tax program in the...

We could have easily purchased Senators for reserve and rear echelon fleets. That we couldn't even do that is an example of how little we support industry, which in turn is why they lobby so damn hard when RFPs hit the street.

What I am suggesting is that the Harper government wasn't all that generous on buying kit outside wartime exigencies that were also sourced outside Canada. That's why NSS sailed though (pun intended) while they didn't want to burn political capital on FWSAR or FFCP. Etc. Sure the SOCDs existed...

The only reason we could actually punch above our weight in Afghanistan was because we still had enough legacy stock and personnel leftover from the 80s and 90s. People don't seem to understand that we burned through all of that and now there is no juice left in the tank, so the costs to...

You're not the only one. That's why it makes for easy politics. We don't have one carbon tax. We have a federal carbon price. Each province is free to implement a carbon price scheme as they want. The provinces that refuse to implement any policy have the federal backstop applied. The...

Wasn't MHLH sole sourced? Either way it was mostly a follow on capability. Again, add up all of those projects and compare the cost to the shipbuilding portfolio.

Like I said all of those are wartime exigencies. And all of those combined are a fraction of the CSC program. Not even counting the whole shipbuilding portfolio. Honestly, it would be easier to sell building an aircraft carrier in Canada than the aircraft to go on that ship.

Montreal is a world leading centre for AI. Being locked out of AUKUS likely means we'll lose a lot of that talent to them.

I wish people understood how the carbon tax worked. They would make assumptions like this. Revenue collected in a given provinces is rebated in that province. 90% is rebated directly to taxpayers. 10% in various community grants. For example if a local library wants to install better HVAC...

In that case, well there's at least one other NATO member that will be operating the same aircraft. But if we're being honest, commonality with allies hasn't been a substantial driver all the time. Especially in the RCAF. We have a lot of Canadian only fleets. Aside from the AEW discussion...

And ironically, none of that success is attributable to the CAF itself. Where would they be if it wasn't for the war in Ukraine and other OEMs having full order books? A proper defence industrial strategy would actually deliver more of this with win-win for CAF and industry and not just...

It's the obvious place to start for any increase in defence spending. Especially if there's a slowdown in the economy.

Is it an orphan fleet if you convert your VVIP fleet and possibly even your ISR fleet (MAISR) to the same platform over time? Yeah. But reality doesn't work like this. Reality is that the government sees what billions of dollars leaving Canada will do to the national balance sheet for no (or...

It can be a question of cost effectiveness in other ways too. A Saab/Bombardier GlobalEye is likely to be cheaper to buy, cheaper to operate and circulate more money into the economy than Boeing/Northrop E-7. Do we refuse to help our industry and take on higher costs because of 20% more...

Why would allies care about that? When 2% is the standard, nobody else is going to care about "output". Especially when that output doesn't substantially benefit them. Imagine for a second, what you'd be saying if you heard of others ignoring the spending target and talking about "output"...