I'll believe it when I see it.
Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending
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Quirky
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Optics. Diversity. Someone wearing $2000 suits with a Rolex on his wrist is exactly who you want to represent the working class….
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Have you ever looked at Socialist leaders from France.
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Now I want the next NDP leader to only wear Canadian Tuxedoes and Sorels. Maybe a plaid jacket for Fridays.
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Have a read on Francois Holland’s hair needs….
French President Francois Hollande spends $11K a month -- on his hair
By 2017, the French presidency will have shelled out a total of $657,582 on hair grooming.
www.usatoday.com
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Good news is that the CDS and CAFCWO combined won't spend that much on their hair for the rest of their lives.
RangerRay
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But…he has no hair.Have a read on Francois Holland’s hair needs….
French President Francois Hollande spends $11K a month -- on his hair
By 2017, the French presidency will have shelled out a total of $657,582 on hair grooming.www.usatoday.com
RangerRay
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Because he dared to say he would balance the budget. That was heresy in NDP lifer circles. And he committed the other heresy of being a Liberal prior to being a Dipper. So pragmatist + newcomer = extremely short leash.
Amongst the Dipper lifer circles, th leader can be a complete failure as long as you’re ideologically pure. It doesn’t matter if the leader has made the Party irrelevant and the government is eating their lunch.
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Nor should anyone that follows. Our regs have evolved as such that grooming costs are no longer an issue
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Colin Parkinson
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At first I wondered about why they choose him, then I grew to respect him, even if I disagreed with him. The only sane one in the NDP room at the time.
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Millions dead = That wasn't real Communism, Even more dead = It will work if we try harder to be Communists
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I have actually had people express that in conversation with me.
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The time to worry about the NDP is when they elect someone who stands before us in a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt or a t-shift and wears a simple Timex watch. Someone who donates a sizeable portion of his/her MP's salary to the local food bank or soup kitchen. Someone who surrounds themselves with aides/advisors who dress the same as he/she does and does the same thing with their salaries. That is when you will know that they are serious about their socialist mantra and are looking gather their base and make their version of change happen.
Eye In The Sky
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The RCAF is getting ball hats at some point?
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I though a saw a RFP for new Convening Tables go out.....so all good.
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It was a hint, not a commitment.
The parties controlling Parliament happily blew out the budget even before crisis struck, took measures that blew it out further to deal with crisis, and added substantial new program spending. All of that was popular (enough) with voters. The stories I see on CBC are mostly about "health care in crisis", not "defence in crisis". Even here, who is willing to give up their new childcare subsidy or dental care subsidy (if eligible), or accept a return to, say, year 2000 income tax rates?
Defence is going to be "managed readiness" at the macro level for the long-term foreseeable future. "Full capability" (whatever that might be, but assuming it means at least one each minor naval, land, and air formation ready to go with necessary contemporary capabilities) isn't on the table.
The parties controlling Parliament happily blew out the budget even before crisis struck, took measures that blew it out further to deal with crisis, and added substantial new program spending. All of that was popular (enough) with voters. The stories I see on CBC are mostly about "health care in crisis", not "defence in crisis". Even here, who is willing to give up their new childcare subsidy or dental care subsidy (if eligible), or accept a return to, say, year 2000 income tax rates?
Defence is going to be "managed readiness" at the macro level for the long-term foreseeable future. "Full capability" (whatever that might be, but assuming it means at least one each minor naval, land, and air formation ready to go with necessary contemporary capabilities) isn't on the table.
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Not so sure about the above.
If you add multiple weeks of what has just occurred regarding these unknown source of balloons popping up over various places in NA, specifically moving them down from Alaska/Yukon to more mundane places like Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, North Bay, Sherbrooke, Kansas City, Sacramento, Boise, Tallahassee, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, etc and you'll start to see yammering about the need for more funding of the CAF. If it continues to be ONLY US fighters shooting down balloons across Canadian airspace then the pressure will be on for the Petit Dauphin to do something.
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you aren't being fair, it is a personal pledge by Justin, not by Canada
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