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Interesting choice on the weight cutoff- looks like the Flyer 72 / M1288 are not wanted. DAGOR vs. ISV as preferred choices?

Have some sub-units been cut or will they be used to reinforce the Danish Bn/ our LIB? Canadian Tank Squadron Polish Tank Squadron Spanish Tank Troop 2x Italian Tank Troops Canadian Inf Coy Spanish Inf Coy Italian Inf Coy Slovakian Inf Coy That BG seems unwieldy to fight as a Bn.

Not really. The two year program is an incredible hands on diploma And I'm sure no offense meant, but you should spent a couple of hours listening to farm radio show to appreciate the complexity of the career and life. Farm kids hitting Ridgetown is in no way credential driven.

I'm ten years away from any kind of "push", but yeah Trades with either a 1 year college business diploma (in person if they want to get out and live in the city, online if not) to set themselves up to either advance in their company or go it alone and do well Anything in the medical field...

If you actually want to farm I'd argue that Ridgetown is the better option. UofG lost something when they move the two year program to the satellite campus.

It's an existential question along these lines that I find intruding in the quiet moments. Is the wheel just going to keep turning, or are we going to see a major pivot in the western way of life? Should I be conservative and play it safe so that I'm in a financial position to help my children...

I'd argue that's not an argument against the merits of the concept itself, rather a barrier to its implementation. But unfortunately yes a very real one. Agreed in full.

Likewise. But that being said. A ten 10-20% haircut to OAS and CCB via tightening means testing / accelerating high income clawbacks seems like a no brainer. Is there a rational argument against it? Low hanging fruit for a principled, fiscally responsible 2025 government.

I think the mathematical reality of the article posted by OP pretty strongly makes the case that the amount of unneeded transfer in a non-means tested "universal" program would far outweigh the efficiency gains.

My understanding was that Rheinmetall intends to have their own hull when it goes into production (which isn't ready yet), and that any new Leo hulls would have to wait at the back of the line of orders already placed with KMW. As an aside, how much efficiency/ how much further could we stretch...

Does said senior have a household income over 100k in retirement? No? Ok then I pretty clearly wasnt talking about them. What's at question isn't whether some seniors need support, it's whether giving money to those that don't is a good use of tax-payer funds that we can't afford to spend.

Fully agreed. And, as a a younger person with what is soon to be children, there's more fat that can be trimmed from personal transfer programs without leaving those in need out in the cold. Don't get me wrong, I like what's left of my CCB after clawbacks. If we're cutting senior's with...

We have 74 of said hulls, would Panther turrets + new power pack and overall refurb be a technologically feasible upgrade path to a common fleet that bypasses the waitlist at KMW?

I think the expectations for a "G7 Nation" are subconsciously distorted by the US skewing the "average." France is planning 200 tanks to the XLR standard (~ 175% our population, 150% our GDP) UK ~200 Challengers (similar ratio to France) Italy is only upgrading 125 Ariete's (150% of our...

Looking at the present situation, if we can assume A- 5 tanks is the minimum we need of a combat variant for domestic/training requirements B- the 34 remaining A4's + 5 tanks per combat variant are enough to sustainably meet domestic training requirements It's conceivable that once the A6M's...

https://globalnews.ca/news/10110607/canada-real-estate-td-housing-price-forecast/ In my neck of the woods said 10% price drop would reset the average back to where it was this January, which is where it was in ~April of 2021.

Counter question- if a medium AFV can be produced on a LAV 6 chassis, at LAV 6 weight (or close to it), would that not make a the LAV Recce an under-gunned, under-protected medium AFV, and the classification of LAV Recce equipped squadron as "Light" an exercise in mental gymnastics, and the...

I had a brief moment optimism. This paragraph phrase - "Ottawa should retool its focus within NATO toward the defence of the Arctic. Such an undertaking makes even more sense with Sweden and Finland joining NATO, offering Canada the opportunity to assume a prominent role within a group of...

I think the if/then in the second para implicitly captures the "why" from the 1st paragraph- it's a question of time horizon. The way I see it there's two very different basic discussions- near term augmentation and long term clean sheet recapitalization. Both the Leo and LAV fleet are pegged...

What would that look like, something like LAV Recce with baseline armour for light, LAV 105/ 35+ATGM fully uparmoured for medium? Could I take that to mean that my whole "walks like a tank, talks like a tank, probably a better tank than the C2, without all of the logistical/infrastructure...