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You might want to research your assumption that there are not agreed metrics as to what is defence spending. Just because it is labeled “defence budget” does not mean it counts, and conversely items can be counted if not so labeled.

There are different pots of money in the defence budget, and they operate under different rules. Infrastructure and major equipment projects do come out of the defence budget, and you cannot take money out of those pots to use for other purposes.

You are advocating to focus on the easy and ignore the hard parts until it is too late. A battalion that jumps into a fight will have a substantially different sustainment train than a battalion that marched in, and both will be different than one that came in over the beach or the one that...

Invite people to work on Sunday

Cougar MRAPs?

If you are at CANSEC, keep in mind the companies are showing what they want to sell, not necessarily things that DND is buying. Also, if Logistik wants soldier buy-in they might want to figure out how to at least match Marks for quality of workplace apparel. It is not normal that every article...

… or to heavy equipment that was bought while the Berlin Wall was still a thing.

Boom.

Well, it does have good shear strength. So I will take it over various “cushioned” multi-ply TP that I’ve had the misfortune of encountering.

They have both threatened the world with nuclear weapons in the last handful of months. So, North Korea and Russia have gone past that level of threat.

Sure, but only if Canada sends Russia the carbon tax bill when those piles start burning.