I'll believe it when I see it.
I am not.I mean are you surprised?
That is some British-level understatement thereBut yeah there is a lot of waste.
They have Police Agency Envy.Edited to add: The Space thing blows my mind. There are the 5 separate Space components (one for each service), the US Space Force, and then US Space Command, which are all different things.
I’m guessing all those positions are fighting going to Space Force because they don’t want to wear those fugly uniforms…Congress is forcing the services to transfer the Space positions to Space Force.
It's actually more related to wanting something out of Satellites that they don't think they are going to get from a larger parent --I’m guessing all those positions are fighting going to Space Force because they don’t want to wear those fugly uniforms…![]()
It's actually more related to wanting something out of Satellites that they don't think they are going to get from a larger parent --
1) The Army tends to look at the fact they have armed helicopter because the USAF doesn't want to do ground support stuff.
2) The USAF has Security Forces as the Army doesn't want to provide soldiers to look after aircraft that won't do ground support.
3) The USMC tends to distrust everyone and duplicated all efforts because everyone else ignores them.
4) The Navy well they do Navy stuff
5) SOCOM knows the other services are so fucked up, if they want something done they will do it themselves...
and there is justification for a whole lot of shit in DoD - not just the Space aspect.
Unless I'm mistaken, in days of yore, each of the services received its own budget from the government.I’m obviously not sure how it worked out before unification, but getting rid of IRMC just pushes the problem right, no?
Each L1 staffs up their needs to…somewhere and they get approved. But at some point, some organization (TB or other) will have to say “we have the $ for this, but not that”. With IRMC, which is presumably DND-internal, the rack-and-stack is at a lower level than having to get to the point of TB, just to essentially be racked-and-stacked at the Govt level.
I could be totally wrong though.
There was a political appointment of Secretary for the RCN, reported to MND at least until 1961. The RCN had control over its budget at that time. I assume the other service branches were the same.Unless I'm mistaken, in days of yore, each of the services received its own budget from the government.
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Brooke Claxton brought the services under a single budget before the Korea War was done.
Again it comes down to Canadians being some of the cheapest SOB's in the world. Wanting everything for free and never wanting to pay or tip for any service.Canadians are proud of the CAF, but as with most other areas of public expenditure, are not willing to pay for it.
Again it comes down to Canadians being some of the cheapest SOB's in the world. Wanting everything for free and never wanting to pay or tip for any service.
I could very well be wrong but I had understood the position of Secretary of the RCN to have been their pre-integration equivalent of the JAG in the CA.There was a political appointment of Secretary for the RCN, reported to MND at least until 1961. The RCN had control over its budget at that time. I assume the other service branches were the same.
Yes - everybody should follow the basic rules.It’d be nice if someone told the CPC that earlier this year.
Well, that's sad.
We have less leverage already.
See, ytz?
Health is NOT a federal responsibility. National Defence most definitely IS.
We do NOT live in a "democracy". We live in a Constitutional Monarchy.
Each level of government has its distinct powers, responsibilities, and limitations.
The federal government should NOT be overstepping its powers, responsibilities, and limitations by interfering with provincial/territorial powers and responsibilities through bribery or coercion. We would be better off if each managed its own affairs and not others'.
The Space thing blows my mind. There are the 5 separate Space components (one for each service), the US Space Force, and then US Space Command, which are all different things.
Canadians bitch and moan most about the state of services they get locally, but are not willing to go out and vote for the city and municipal councils that most affect their lives. Then they bitch and moan about the lack of talent in their municipal governments that are seeming incapable of delivering those services.You guys can go on and on about how you wish government was structured in Canada. But at the end of the day, it's not a widely shared view among Canadians. And any party that pushed the view you suggest (say dismantling the Canada Health Act completely) would quickly find out what a fringe view that really is. Arguing that people who live in poorer provinces should get shittier healthcare is hardly going to be the way to convince the public that more should be spent on defence. That is a zero sum argument that we will always lose (and historically have a straight record of losing).
This! Turn out for local elections is typically abysmal, which has the unfortunate side affect of making it very possible for very narrow special interests to exert influence their numbers might not otherwise warrant. There's no getting away from the fact that the government that delivers the services I use every day is my municipality. Of course municipalities are creatures of the provincial governments that create them which do not I think have any interest in strengthening their popular mandates.Canadians bitch and moan most about the state of services they get locally, but are not willing to go out and vote for the city and municipal councils that most affect their lives. Then they bitch and moan about the lack of talent in their municipal governments that are seeming incapable of delivering those services.
Just an observation.
Probably, not sure. I’m going from memory on what Landymore wrote in Thunder and Sunshine, where he had epic battle with SecNav who actually supported integration of the RCN and positioning Air Command to take over navy flight operations and that budget relieved from RCN control.I could very well be wrong but I had understood the position of Secretary of the RCN to have been their pre-integration equivalent of the JAG in the CA.
Somewhere in the past I read the JAG's history but don't have it now, but I think that whatever powers the Secretary of the RCN had were not the same as the JAG. The RCN, which had been under different legislation and different departments (eventually the Department of Naval Services), than the Militia were combined with the RCAF (then under the Air Board) into a Department of National Defence in 1922.I could very well be wrong but I had understood the position of Secretary of the RCN to have been their pre-integration equivalent of the JAG in the CA.