Derek 2.0

One, its not a cafeteria, but a dinning hall with kitchen, to allow a battalion sized military formation (using the ranges) to feed its personal, with meals prepared by its own logistic staff........second, food prepared in large quantity, by any military, and served in steam trays is not good, let alone very good........third, the dinning hall, is not located in the Black Bear Inn as you stated, several times in various threads....... If you want "very good food" from anywhere within the region, you have to cross the State line into Tidewater........

On your Nintendo or xbox?

One thing is for certain, you haven't.......

There is no cafeteria at the Black Bear Inn.......

As you've said several times........Do you mean the food from the vending machines or what you cook yourself, in the communal kitchens, stocked with a shared fridge and microwave?

An even better question; is Dimitri still working for the Tories..........you know what they say about Greeks bearing gifts..

No, as mentioned in an above link, the use of their facilities (with Canadian trainers) in pre-deployment training for members going to Afghanistan was namely a result of Canada not having enough room in its own facilities......namely ranges simulating urban warfare and indoor/close quarter battle, which without a doubt saved the lives of many Canadian Forces members deployed to Afghanistan. Morality and ethics are installed in new recruits, in Canada, by Canadians at CFLRS.

Only a disagreement if you feel wars aren't fought for economic security.......which of course is not the case.

Indeed and going forward, mankind will continue to kill each other, be it for a country, religion, dogma or under the flag of the greenback dollar ( to borrow from Steve Earle).........

Right, likewise their use in early Canada.........Our contribution to the Boer War was a private light cavalry unit, funded by the head of the Canadian Pacific Railway and commanded by Sam Steele of the North West Mounted Police.........Lord Strathcona's Horse, of course, has long since been apart of the regular Canadian army.

Right, and in some instances, such groups (made of former defense personal) provide services (not only training) in given fields, which in the past DND (or DoD...MoD etc) had to pay costly overhead to retain a unique capability within their forces that they only required from time to time.

You understand various defense agencies hire former service personal.......the SAS, SASR, GSG9, SEALS, Delta, Rangers etc lose personal annually to such groups...

Day didn't run in 2011, so older than that............. ------------ With that said, the Canadian Forces, like most modern armed forces, have been using defense contractors for decades, with the largest contracts granted by the previous Chretien and Martin Governments........Their use can be cost effective in some areas, reducing annual capital and manpower costs, inversely overuse in other areas can be both costly and wasteful.

From the OP: How old is this story????

Sure, one could go BOOM!!! By all means, explain why oil tankers are more at risk for accident than LNG tankers, that have been traversing those very waters without incident for nearly 40 years.........

"We" as in the ignorant to reality.........The Douglas Channel has seen endless LNG tanker traffic since the 70s......without a single incident........The last "oil tanker spill" in BC waters was a barge nearly 30 years ago, years before the current rules and regulations were implemented.......the only recent major oil spill, within all BC waters since, resulted from the sinking of the Queen of the North.

As said numerous times to you, unlike the majority of commercial shipping, oil tankers (in all Canadian waters) are governed under a different set of regulations, set in place to mitigate such a disaster (as said, spill response teams accompanying transiting vessels, likewise emergency vessels under heightened readiness when said tankers are transiting busy water ways)......... such rules being put in place after the last oil tanker disaster in Canadian waters in the later 80s.......and there hasn't been a single incident, within our waters, since.

How many people wash their cars in their driveways in Metro Vancouver?...... And no, its not bunker C, but a sustained problem overlooked by most.....

Perspective........I'm not the one likening this spill with major oil tanker disasters.......And how do you know, in this case, Transport Canada is to blame? Its been reported that the CCG notified both the Province and Port of Vancouver as soon as they confirmed the spill.......what appears murky, more so then the water, is the actual timeline according to CTV: Much ado about nothing, or a failure at Vancouver City Hall? ------------- Though big picture the spill was a tiny event, akin to a minor train derailment or a tanker truck accident on the hwy...my concern, and what I feel should be the focus from this story going forward, is piss poor intergovernmental communications between the Province and the Cities........which could have severe consequences in the event of an actual disaster.....like an Earthquake.

Government bureaucracy........or the knowledge that in the big scheme of things, more oil was likely burned cleaning it up, and despite the media headlines of the Great English Bay oil spill disaster of 2015, whenever a single train tanker car derails and spills its load, nearly 50 times more fuel is leaked into the environment..........again the amount leaked here would fill ~15-20 standard size bathtubs.........

An amount of fuel equal to the capacity of 24 Ford F350s........or what is leached from roadways into storm sewers and then into rivers, creeks and the ocean, from Metro Vancouver after a good rainy day........

The reality being a bulk carrier had a minor fuel leak, when contrasted with a major spill from a tanker, the CCG and contractors contained and cleaned up 80% of the spill by the next morning, but due to a communication breakdown, the City of Vancouver wasn't notified until the next day..........perhaps a lesson to be learned, so as if it were to occur again, city workers can start cleaning the beaches at night earning triple time versus the next day at regular rate......... The perspective, the oil released from this spill (~2700 litres) represents ~1% the amount released 8 years ago when some idiot tagged an underground pipeline in Burnaby.........there will likely be more oil and chemicals put into surrounding waterways from the surfaces of Vancouver roadways from this weekend's rain.........further perspective, the amount leaked into English Bay represents the fuel capacity of about two dozen full size pick-ups........

That is because, people like you, are ignorant to the current rules and regulations encompassing tanker traffic in Canadian waters.

Clearly.... So when are you guys going to give us the Ukrainian or Tibetan treatment? And can I run the provisional government?

Right, so responding to a bulk carrier with a leaking fuel tank would warrant more a response than a fishing boat, but less than an oil tanker........like I was saying....... Use your grade 3 math skills and regale me with what 20% of not very much is, when contrasted with the Exxon Valdez.......