Covid showed that any opportunity for this government to do away with normal procedures will just result in unprecedented waste and fraud including billions of dollars going missing with no consequences. Further, unless the project involves indiscriminately sending out cheques, it still won't get done.
Amen. The last people we want involved in an emergency is the government, especially this liberal government. Please keep these people as far away as possible from Canadians. 🇨🇦
Gonna go back and catch up on the Mike Moffatt segment, but just wanted to say Glenn Cowan was great. His "bullish on Canada" comment is worth taking to heart. After decades of complacency (which also infected the CF), Canadians are coming to grips with new realities faster than one might expect. That's worth encouraging.
Even a year ago, flying a Canadian flag was basically an invitation to some decolonizing or convoy ideologue to start shouting about what a terrible country Canada is. Given this recent history, the new and rising level of public support for increased defence spending (and, heck, even identifying as capital-C Canadians) is actually heartening. And if (if) poll respondents are wrong about the US being our largest threat, at least Canadians now actually get that there "are* threats.
Me, I'd like to see more + better messaging around (national) identity formation and capacity-building for ordinary citizens. All the defence, tech, procurement, ally relations stuff: yes, yes -- but also, let's encourage and *enable* ordinary Canadians to think and act in ways that support, serve and defend our country. There's a new willingness that should be tapped into.
Might not want to use a picture of a T-34/85 Soviet tank as an example of going on war footing. We actually did make hundreds of tanks and used at least that many in WWII if one is looking for such a Cdn example. A Sherman tank would do. (We had 18 regiments of tanks and/or tanks with heavy reconnaissance vehicles in two armoured divisions, plus separate two armoured brigades.)
The key to fixing the housing market is to let it crash. Mike Moffat made the point that prices won't come down unless costs come down. A crash similar to what happened in the early 80s or early 90s would do just that
The last time we thought we needed wartime action was the covid years, and look how that turned out.
Our current leadership and institutions are far too incompetent (when not simply malicious) for any kind of wartime urgency to turn out well.
Instead, we need to accept the necessity of doing a gut-job renovation on all of them, and take our time to do that right.
Unrealistic, you say? Entrenched interests are too powerful? You're probably right. The second best option is doing nothing.
Covid showed that any opportunity for this government to do away with normal procedures will just result in unprecedented waste and fraud including billions of dollars going missing with no consequences. Further, unless the project involves indiscriminately sending out cheques, it still won't get done.
Amen. The last people we want involved in an emergency is the government, especially this liberal government. Please keep these people as far away as possible from Canadians. 🇨🇦
Gonna go back and catch up on the Mike Moffatt segment, but just wanted to say Glenn Cowan was great. His "bullish on Canada" comment is worth taking to heart. After decades of complacency (which also infected the CF), Canadians are coming to grips with new realities faster than one might expect. That's worth encouraging.
Even a year ago, flying a Canadian flag was basically an invitation to some decolonizing or convoy ideologue to start shouting about what a terrible country Canada is. Given this recent history, the new and rising level of public support for increased defence spending (and, heck, even identifying as capital-C Canadians) is actually heartening. And if (if) poll respondents are wrong about the US being our largest threat, at least Canadians now actually get that there "are* threats.
Me, I'd like to see more + better messaging around (national) identity formation and capacity-building for ordinary citizens. All the defence, tech, procurement, ally relations stuff: yes, yes -- but also, let's encourage and *enable* ordinary Canadians to think and act in ways that support, serve and defend our country. There's a new willingness that should be tapped into.
Wartime action? For what? Just yesterday you were writing that we need to lower our expectations on what government (Mark Carney Liberals) can do.
Might not want to use a picture of a T-34/85 Soviet tank as an example of going on war footing. We actually did make hundreds of tanks and used at least that many in WWII if one is looking for such a Cdn example. A Sherman tank would do. (We had 18 regiments of tanks and/or tanks with heavy reconnaissance vehicles in two armoured divisions, plus separate two armoured brigades.)
The key to fixing the housing market is to let it crash. Mike Moffat made the point that prices won't come down unless costs come down. A crash similar to what happened in the early 80s or early 90s would do just that