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So did Chinese and Jamaican and Indian and Afro/American immigrants. The descendants of Russian immigrants have as much claim to Canada as they do and nothing more. The OP suggested that “white males” made Canada so if we’re just counting anyone who immigrated early including Russians then non-whites also count as do women. Get it?

It’s official the damaged Polaris in Guam will be written off and scrapped, totally unsurprising now that the new Huskies are being delivered Air Force plane to be completely scrapped after collision with French aircraft Fixing the CC-150 Polaris that collided with a French air force plane at Anderson Air Force Base in July would cost as much as $28 million Published Dec 01, 2023 • Last updated 20 hours ago • 3 minute read The end result of a Canadian CC -150 Polaris that rolled away and collided with a parked French Air Force A400M on July 22, 2023 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. The Canadian aircraft will be scrapped. Courtesy United States Air Force OTTAWA – Marooned at a Micronesian air force base after colliding with another aircraft over the summer, a heavily damaged Canadian Air Force transport plane will be scrapped, officials say. Royal Canadian Air Force transport plane 15003 — a CC-150 Polaris — was involved in a ground collision with a French Air Force plane on July 22 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam while participating in a multinational exercise organized by the United States Air Force. With the fate of the aircraft left in doubt since the summer, the Royal Canadian Air Force confirmed to the National Post on Thursday the plane will be written off and scrapped on site. “The Polaris CC-150 aircraft in question sustained severe damage that renders repair economically unfeasible,” said Department of National Defence Spokesperson Maj. Soomin Kim. “Repair costs were estimated to range between $7.9 and $28.5 million, with a six to eight-month turnaround period.” According to an official air force occurrence summary, 15003 was taking part in Exercise MOBILITY GUARDIAN, a large-scale logistics training exercise facilitated by the USAF Air Mobility Command. An RCAF crew assigned to fly the plane back to CFB Trenton arrived at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii on July 21, the report read, with plans to depart Guam the next day for Canada. “The aircraft was loaded with equipment and baggage in preparation for departure the following day,” the report read. Noting the plane was left “partially secured” without wheel chocks, the report said 15003 rolled backwards on its own at 10:30 a.m. the next morning, colliding with a French Air Force Airbus A400M parked nearby. “Following contact the CC-150 rebounded forward, coming to rest approximately eight meters from the point of impact,” the report read. The end result of a Canadian CC -150 Polaris that rolled away and collided with a parked French Air Force A400M on July 22, 2023 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. The Canadian aircraft will be scrapped.Photo by United States Air Force photo The French aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer tore through 15003’s rudder, nearly shearing off the plane’s tail. Both planes sustained major damage in the collision, the report noted, but nobody was injured. “The investigation did not reveal any evidence of technical issues with the aircraft and is now focusing on procedures, communications, and human factors,” the report stated. The decision to scrap 15003 came just one day before the plane was scheduled to be decommissioned, Kim said, now that the first of four new Airbus-built CC-330 Husky Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) planes entered service earlier this month. The CC-330s are based on Airbus’s venerable A330-200 airliners. Those four planes are part of a $3.6-billion deal to modernize Canada’s transport, VIP and air-to-air refuelling capabilities. Canada’s first CC-330 arrived in Canada in October and took its first official flight earlier this month, transporting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the APEC summit in San Francisco. “The Canadian Armed Forces concluded that writing off the aircraft would be in the best interest of the Crown,” Maj. Kim said. The arrival of the CC-330 Husky couldn’t have come at a better time for Canada’s beleaguered and obsolete Polaris fleet. Plane 15001, typically used by the prime minister or other VIPs for overseas trips, broke down in September in New Delhi, prompting an international mission to both dispatch technicians and a second planeto India to rescue the PM and his delegation. In 2019, that same plane was put out of commission for nearly a year-and-a-half after it rolled away and collided with a hangar wall at CFB Trenton, causing $11 million in damage to its nose and an engine. Ottawa-based research consultant Steffan Watkins pointed out that most of that repair time was spent waiting for an open repair slot at the Airbus maintenance depot at Montreal-Mirabel airport. “It would be interesting to know, in the government’s expected schedule for the estimated work needed to fix 15003, if most of the time for the repair would be spent waiting for Airbus to slot them in,” he said. Aircraft 15004, he said, has been undergoing deep maintenance in Mirabel for the past month. Only three of the RCAF’s five Polaris planes are still in service — 15001 and 15002 have spent the past two weeks performing flights between Canada and Europe, with 15005 taking part in a joint training exercise in Key West, Fla. https://www.coldlakesun.com/news/rcaf-plane-collision-guam-scrapped

Yeah but now they’re flirting with protectionism with all their recent anti-globalization and anti-WEF rhetoric. We will see how serious they are about that once they’re in power however. I hav a feeling the protectionism will all disappear right after PP’s coronation. An invalid concern meant to stir up emotions As stated in the article, the free trade deal with Korea that the Conservatives wrote specifically states that it allows these types of foreign workers, over whom PP himself presided as Minister of Employment. So yes it was intended to being in these kinds of foreign workers. As the article states, Canadian taxpayer money only starts flowing AFTER the foreign works have set up the factory equipment and it is producing batteries Canadian workers are also the ones building the factories in the first place and will also be the one working in the factory once it’s up and running I think it’s quite clear that they’re there to set up the factory equipment only. Their assignments will range fro 3 to18 months, specifically they will “assemble, install and test the specialized equipment required to build the batteries” as “they have specific knowledge of the equipment, having been part of the team to build it and disassemble it for shipping, and will therefore see the installation through ”.

Pierre Poilievre’s fearmongering on NextStar moves the Tories in the wrong direction Back before Canada’s Conservatives started to tread down the path toward protectionism, one of their last acts in government was to sign a free-trade deal with South Korea. The Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement that prime minister Stephen Harper’s government negotiated in 2014 promised tariff-free access to a fast-growing Asian economy for Canadian exporters. The deal nevertheless faced stiff opposition from Canada’s auto sector, which feared that more imported Hyundai and Kia cars would mean fewer jobs at assembly plants here. In truth, Canada had little choice but to conclude such a pact after the United States had entered into a free-trade deal with South Korea in 2011. That deal had left Canadian companies at a disadvantage. Our exports to Korea fell sharply in 2012 and 2013. Story continues below advertisement “This agreement is a great deal for both our countries,” Mr. Harper insisted in announcing the Canada-Korea agreement in early 2014. “It will create jobs and opportunities for Canadians today, and just as importantly, for generations that follow.” Since then, two-way trade between Canada and South Korea has more than doubled, to almost $22-billion in 2022. Canadian exports to South Korea soared from $3.5-billion in 2013 to $8.7-billion last year. Trade with South Korea has also taken on critical importance as part of Ottawa’s new Indo-Pacific strategy and efforts to “de-risk” economic relations with China. Flash forward almost a decade to an apparently amnesiac Pierre Poilievre’s tantrum about the South Korean workers coming here to install equipment at the NextStar electric-battery plant that Stellantis and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution are building in Windsor, Ont. Now Conservative Leader, Mr. Poilievre was a member of the government that signed the free-trade deal with South Korea, and even served as employment minister when it took effect in 2015. He of all people should know what is in it, including provisions that enable “contract service providers” from each country to work in the other on a temporary basis. Most of the hundreds of workers that NextStar intends to bring in from South Korea will do so under these provisions, which exempt them from having to obtain a work permit. A smaller number are expected to come as temporary foreign workers, as long as NextStar can prove that Canadians could not perform their jobs. Since the South Korean workers will be coming to install proprietary technology that belongs to LG Energy Solution, that should not be a problem. These workers will only be here for a matter of months. The plant could not be built without them, or at least not in time for battery production to be up and running by 2025. They will not “steal” jobs from Canadian construction workers nor occupy any of the 2,500 permanent jobs that Stellantis says the plant will create. Mr. Poilievre has nevertheless worked himself into a tizzy about their arrival, even suggesting that Canadian taxpayers are footing the bill for their paycheques. “I love South Korea, wonderful country,” he quipped this week. “But they don’t fund jobs for Canadians and we shouldn’t fund jobs for their workers.” Except that the $15-billion in production subsidies that the federal and the Ontario governments have promised to NextStar are only to start flowing once the plant begins to make batteries – or well after most of the South Korean workers have returned home. Ottawa and Queen’s Park have also promised $1-billion to NextStar to support the plant’s construction, which will provide jobs for more than 2,000 Canadian construction workers. Story continues below advertisement There are good reasons to question whether the massive subsidies that the federal, Ontario and Quebec governments have promised to Stellantis, Volkswagen and Northvolt to build electric-vehicle batteries in this country are worthwhile investments. But the fact that all three plants will need to bring in foreign workers to install proprietary equipment is not one of them. Without such workers, these plants simply could not be built here. It is as plain as that. The success or failure of Canada’s experiment in battery production will only be determined in the course of time. The Parliamentary Budget Officer estimatesthat it will take 23 years for Ottawa and Queen’s Park to break even on their investment in the NextStar plant alone. Mr. Poilievre has not said he opposes subsidizing these battery makers. Rather, he is seeking to rile up working-class voters by falsely suggesting foreigners might be stealing their jobs. As with his fictitious claim that the updated Canada-Ukraine trade agreement includes a carbon tax – a claim he is using as a pretext for opposing the deal – Mr. Poilievre has again shown he is willing to turn his back on the free-trade ethos his party once championed to score political points and scare voters. As such, he is taking the Tories in precisely the wrong direction. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-pierre-poilievres-fearmongering-on-nextstar-moves-the-tories-in-the/?login=true

I didn’t see that many in your link

Our founding fathers were not Russians no matter what your puppet master Putin tells you. . Russians only helped build Canada as much as any non-white immigrant did, pal. They don’t have any special claim to Canada over non-whites.

An even greater number of guilty people who claim to be innocent are behind bars. A through review of the, facts called a trial, concluded that Chauvin is guilty and therefore it is false to say he is not wrongfully convicted.

As a point of fact no he wasn’t, that is why he is still behind bars. You need to learn how to tell the difference between what is actually tru and what you wish was true, but like most MAGAs you can’t.

Oh look, the forum has a new white supremacist conspiracy kook! With a Russian handle to boot. How can someone named Mikhail claim to belong to the people who built Canada? Very “ethnic” of you., sir. Russians didn’t build Canada in fact for the last century they have mostly been an enemy of Canada. Is your family part of those immigrants that you’re so upset about?

Annnd it’s official! Canada officially announces deal for 14 P-8 aircraft to be delivered in 2026-2027 with an option for an additional 2 aircraft. Personally I doubt we will buy the other 2 unless US is still twisting our arm Wow big year for the RCAF in terms of deals signed 88 F-35 fighters 9 (up from proposed 6) Airbus 330 MRTT 14-16 Boeing P-8 (Boeing 737) Multi-Mission Aircraft All while magically cutting $1Bn from the shoestring budget of a force experiencing a manpower and recruiting crisis Growing threats to Canada's security drove $10B surveillance plane purchase, minister says https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sole-sourced-deal-boeing-surveillance-aircraft-replacement-1.7044913

An interesting point from Forbes earlier this year which might also help explain the pressure on Canada to select the P-8. The tl;dr version is that the USAF is still in the process of designing its version of the E7 Wedgetail AWACS aircraft, which is based on the same B737 NG airframe that is no longer in production for anything except for the P8. If P8 orders dry up too soon before they are able to start production of the USAF’s E7s, Boeing might need to permanently shut down the B737 NG production line and will not be able to commence E7 production at all. AWACS of course is a critical strategic asset and USAF’s existing AWACS fleet is old and decrepit Navy Shortfall In P-8 Antisubmarine Aircraft Could Be A Problem For The Air Force Too …As noted above, the P-8 airframe is based on the Boeing 737 commercial transport. However, it does not use the 737 MAX airframe that the company currently builds for commercial carriers, it uses a previous variant called the Next Generation, or 737NG. … The problem the Air Force faces is that it wants to acquire a replacement of the aging E-3 AWACS radar plane using the same variant of the 737, and current Navy plans might not keep the production line and workforce intact long enough to be ready for building the Air Force plane. Designated the E-7, the Air Force’s future radar plane is critical to monitoring global airspace and managing air operations. The service says it needs 26 aircraft, and last month awarded a sole-source contract to Boeing for its development. … The development process probably will not take long, because the AWACS successor will be an evolved version of the Wedgetail radar plane operated by Australia. But the Air Force has a raft of upgrades it wants to install on its version, so Boeing can’t just start turning out more Wedgetails. If the NG line gaps between the end of P-8 production and the beginning of E-7 production, then the Air Force will need to reconstitute both the work force and the supply chain, a process fraught with uncertainty. Filling out the Navy requirement with ten more P-8s would largely solve the problem, but Boeing assembles Poseidons at a rate of one per month, so it won’t be long before the Navy’s existing order for 128 planes is completed. After that, the only orders keeping the line warm are those from allies. The 737NG line is thus fragile; if the Navy is not funded to its full requirement on P-8 or there are hiccups in allied plans, the Air Force’s follow-on buy faces significant uncertainties. That is an unwelcome possibility given how decrepit the AWACS fleet has become. The head of Air Combat Command, Gen. Mark Kelly, says his service is “20 years late” developing a successor to AWACS, and describes the existing E-3 fleet as being in “hospice care.” The Air Force can’t tolerate any delays in its replacement plan. …. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2023/03/08/navy-shortfall-in-p-8-antisubmarine-aircraft-could-be-a-problem-for-the-air-force-too/?sh=3313cc7c2da0

P8 announcement could be as early as tomorrow! Boeing poised for sole-sourced military patrol plane deal worth billions: report By Christopher Reynolds The Canadian Press Posted November 29, 2023 10:58 am The federal government is expected to announce as early as Thursday that it has selected Boeing to replace the military’s aging patrol planes in a multibillion-dollar deal, according to three sources familiar with the matter. ….Two of the sources, including a senior government official, said the Treasury Board held a special meeting Tuesday night and approved the contract, which a U.S. agency has listed at US$5.9 billion (C$8 billion). https://globalnews.ca/news/10128904/canada-military-patrol-plane-replacement-boeing/

About 20 years ago I read his book Tested Mettle about Canadian Peacekeepers in former Yugo and found it very interesting and entertaining. Them I lost track of him for a while only to rediscover years later and like @Army Guy said his stuff pretty much always reads as anti-military diatribe and his articles are opinion pieces as opposed to reporting. Pugiliese OTOH at least sticks to factual reporting. He may be selective in what he reports but I don’t doubt its factual accuracy. Glad that mindset has now changed (apparently). You would think they’d see the value of maritime patrol and ship-borne helicopters beyond ASW. And we still do beat the Yanks and their P8s with the CP-140: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/maple-leaf/rcaf/2022/01/the-407-squadron-defends-the-dragon-belt.html https://skiesmag.com/news/demons-407-squadron-defend-anti-submarine-warfare-title-sea-dragon/?amp However I noticed during each Ex Sea Dragon, the humidity of the South Pacific wreaked havoc on the CP140’s systems and electronics, this year the gremlins denied us a 3-peat victory but still it was Japanese and their a Kawasaki who took top prize this year, once again not one of the countries flying the P8 https://skiesmag.com/news/exercise-sea-dragon-407-squadron-cp-140-aurora-test/?amp Challenger is small but I have confidence in a Global to fill in foe lighter duties. Especially since the Bombardier proposal includes the same wold-beating General Dynamics mission system that we are already using. USAF and US Army have selected the same Bombardier Global 6500 platform for a variety of ISR, EW and airborne comms missions. But a fleet of Globals on their own probably wouldn’t meet the requirements that are expected of us when operating in the face of Russia or China so I think we probably need a few P8s. But it’s hard for me to see how a Global couldn’t handle the rest in a more cost efficient manner.

Yeah I mean the arguments that he and Scott Taylor put forward to claim CAF is over-funded don’t hold any water. Their argument is based on the fact Canada is the 14th largest military spender in the world, so what we’re #1 largest in land mass except for Russia, #1 in offshore territory, the only country aside from Russia to border 3 oceans, and we have the world’s longest coastline. Of course we have a bigger budget than landlocked countries like Switzerland and Luxembourg. And 14 isn’t so special especially when you consider we are the 9th largest economy. Also they claim that previous claims of CAF doom and gloom didn’t come to pass while obviously many would say they have.

Yeah no doubt multimillion dollar aircraft and aircraft in general need to be meticulously cared for and maintained unlike cars and trucks. In my short time in the Army Reserve I certainly saw soldiers abuse vehicles in ways no aircraft ever could be! For the CP-140 apparently the issue is that regardless of serviceability levels that the platform itself, as a relatively low and slow flying turboprop, is no longer appropriate for modern air defences of against near-peer adversaries and limits on electrical load, space etc for the next generation of systems and weapons. Modern requirements especially for Canada’s increasingly presence in the west Pacific, require planes that can fly higher, faster, scan larger sections of ocean, conduct missions from greater stand-off distances and be able to house on-board equipment for advanced communications and computing. I think a small Bombardier fleet would be an excellent cost effective complement to a small P-8 fleet as opposed to one big expensive P8 fleet. But unfortunately it seems their proposal is simply too little too late so we’re going to purchase more of the costly P8s than we really need and the rest of the CAF will pay the price for it once resources are reallocated accordingly.

Yeah that’s the video I posted on Monday. Unfortunately I think messages are being heard but shrugged off. And then you have frenemy folks like Pugliese who despite his constant reporting on the military’s sad state, insists it’s an issue of mismanagement, not underfunding and opposes funding increases.

According to this article, P-8 Poseidon purchase will be announced within the next week: Minister told industry upgrades to Aurora aircraft a 'Canadian success story' but cautioned not to tell Boeing Multiple defence industry sources say they expect the Liberal government to announce the deal with Boeing in the coming week to buy the P-8. Get the latest from David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen straight to your inbox Published Nov 28, 2023 • Last updated 18 hours ago • 4 minute read The Canadian government appears ready to do business with Boeing to replace the Canadian Forces CP-140 Aurora, shown above. Photo by Sgt Frank Hudec Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne was briefed that high-tech equipment developed for the Canadian Forces Aurora aircraft was world-class and a Canadian innovation success story—but he was cautioned about pointing that out to U.S. aerospace giant Boeing, according to newly released documents. The information gathered for Champagne about the surveillance and anti-submarine warfare equipment developed by Ottawa-based General Dynamics Mission Systems and other domestic firms, meanwhile, runs counter to the claims being made by top National Defence bureaucrats and officers. Bill Matthews, deputy minister at National Defence, told MPs on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations on Oct. 17 that the CP-140 Aurora was “losing relevance rather quickly.” Matthews was making the pitch for the immediate purchase of Boeing P-8 aircraft, which defence officials claim is the only plane that can meet their requirements in replacing the CP-140. The potential purchase of the 16 Boeing planes, to be built in Seattle, as well as associated equipment is worth around $7.8 billion. The overall project cost is expected to be closer to $9 billion. But Canadian firms calling on the Liberal government to reject the sole-source deal to Boeing—and allow a competition—recently pointed out Matthews failed to mention the Canadian Forces is in the midst of spending $400 million to modernize the Aurora into a state-of-the-art surveillance aircraft. Those 14 planes will be delivered by next summer as part of what is known as the Aurora Block IV upgrade. That modernization program includes installation of a system that will make them interoperable with the US and other NATO nations. The upgrades include new air defence systems and sensors, making the Auroras among the most advanced anti-submarine warfare aircraft currently flying. Briefing materials gathered for Champagne on the Aurora aircraft replacement project, as well as for his meeting with then Boeing International president Michael Arthur in September 2022, back up the arguments from domestic firms. “The modernization of the CP-140 Aurora is a Canadian innovation success story, delivering world-class capability sourced primarily from Canadian industry with companies such as General Dynamics Mission Systems Canada, MDA, L3Harris and IMP Aerospace,” Simon Kennedy, deputy minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development told Champagne. In another note for his Boeing meeting, Champagne was also informed that “Canada has developed significant maritime patrol aircraft and multi-mission aircraft capabilities as a result of upgrades Canadian industry has undertaken to the current CP-140 fleet.” But Champagne was advised that this message should be “responsive only” – a term indicating he should only provide that information if specifically asked about it by Boeing. The documents were released through the Access to Information law. Neither Champagne nor his department responded to a request for comment. Boeing stated it has no comment. Multiple defence industry sources say they expect the Liberal government to announce the deal with Boeing in the coming week to buy the P-8. That has sparked anger among Canadian firms and demands by the premiers of Ontario and Quebec that the Liberals stand up for domestic aerospace firms and at least allow Bombardier and General Dynamics Mission Systems a chance to bid on the project to replace the CP-140 Aurora surveillance aircraft. They argue that Canadian expertise developed in surveillance and anti-submarine warfare will be wasted if the contract goes to the U.S. firm. MPs and domestic aerospace firms have also raised questions about why standard procurement rules were altered for such an expensive project. On Nov. 9, the House of Commons committee on national defence called on the federal government to hold a competition for the CP-140 replacement instead of awarding a sole-source contract to Boeing. Matthews did not respond to a recent request for an interview, but he did provide a statement: “I am proud of the work DND/CAF experts and maintainers continue to do on the CP-140, which continues to perform its duties exceptionally well despite its age. While the Block IV upgrades will ensure the CAF have sufficiently advanced equipment to conduct required operations until 2030, a complete replacement will still be required as the aircraft is losing relevance, while adversaries get more complicated.” The Canadian Forces originally planned a competition starting next year to replace the CP-140 aircraft. The Canadian Multi-Mission Aircraft Project, as it was called, outlined the acceptance of bids in 2027. A total of 23 Canadian and international firms submitted material in response to the federal government’s initial request. But in the fall of 2022, the approved procurement plan was thrown out the window and National Defence and Public Service and Procurement Canada (PSPC) bureaucrats began pushing the Boeing P-8 as a sole-source deal. In recent parliamentary hearings, government officials acknowledged they did not examine other potential aircraft in depth or engage in discussions with firms other than Boeing. PSPC stated in March the Boeing P-8 was the only aircraft to meet the military’s needs, and Canada made a formal request to the U.S. government to offer a fleet of the aircraft. Over the years, Canadian governments have spent significant amounts of money developing a domestic anti-submarine warfare industry, largely centred on General Dynamics Mission Systems. General Dynamics Mission Systems originally tried to convince Boeing to install the Canadian-built equipment on the P-8s, but that proposal was rejected. The U.S. government has pressured Canada to boost defence spending, in particular, acquiring more American-built equipment. In response, the Liberal government has highlighted Canada’s ongoing military equipment projects to U.S. lawmakers, noting Canada is buying the U.S.-built F-35 stealth fighter and will spend tens of billions on joint U.S.-Canadian radar systems and defences. In addition, many of the armaments and ammunition Canada is providing to Ukraine come from U.S. industry via the American government. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/minister-told-industry-upgrades-to-aurora-aircraft-a-canadian-success-story-but-cautioned-not-to-tell-boeing?utm_source=skies-daily-news-news-from-the-web&utm_campaign=skies-daily-news&utm_medium=email&utm_term=news-news-from-the-web&utm_content=V1

That was a good one, thanks!

Police brutality has been commonplace since the first caveman was officially put in charge of keeping the other cavemen in line, right up to the present day. Historically right up to the present day brutality was not only tolerated by police brass and political leadership but often encouraged up to a point as long as it didn’t go too far or attract attention. Teaching a “low-life” a “street lesson” was long considered a regular and routine part of policing, it’s just the part you don’t talk about with outsiders. Of course they were not supposed to apply that treatment to innocent law abiding citizens or go so far as to kill people but both inevitably happened. The victims main hope of getting justice rested on their identity and social status, meaning in the US you mostly had to be white and solidly middle class with no blemishes on your record or immediate family tree and of course able to afford a lengthy trial and lawsuit

Thread title is a lie he was not wrongfully convicted.

Nonsense. The only “multifront civilizational suicide” by the west is due to western so-called capitalists on the right wing who in reality are anything but and are busy selling us out to those ruthless foreign warlords. China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia and the like aren’t rising because someone in the West gave a tranny a free Bud Light. They’re rising against us because in the name of capitalism we naively became financially dependent upon them for manufactured goods and natural resources, transferring our advanced technology to them and making them wealthy in the process. And we did this because our wealthiest and most powerful business leaders, the very spokespeople of capitalism, demanded it. Most probably did it out of naïve foolishness thinking we would spread democracy to these repressive places but I doubt any of them spent much time thinking about anything other their own selfish short-term gains. I doubt they would have done anything different even if they knew the outcome. And now their financial interests are greatly invested in these regimes so they have mixed loyalties, a good portion of them are now Putin supporters to boot. Meanwhile the same people who demanded we enrich and empower these brutal regimes also demanded t we decimate western countries with austerity measures that gutted vital public services and punish working class to the point of collapse. They have caused the greatest level of wealth inequality and lowest level of social mobility seen in generations. Working class people in the west are all but condemned to a life of financial hardship or precariousness as the so-called capitalists on the right have demanded their jobs pay as little as possible, their employers, landlords, banks and payday lenders have much power as possible, and the means of escaping this poverty trap (a quality education) be as expensive as possible. In the USA politics have become absolutely corrupted by money and legalized bribery right down to the municipal level. The majority of US congressmen are millionaires who have zero knowledge or interest in the working class. They work for the so-called capitalists who are simply vampires who suck the world dry, starting with their own country. They have no patriotic loyalty to the west or eventual to capitalism and are just as contest to make their fortune destroying the west as opposed to building it up. The right’s culture wars and tranny hysteria, “war on Christmas” and other such nonsense is just to distract you from the real game being played by the ultra-rich and corporations who own the right wing parties and whose only interest is to redistribute as much of the world’s wealth into their own pockets as possible.

Interesting and surprisingly candid public message from the Navy That VAdm talks too fast though

No that’s not what I meant. Immigration policy is only part of the puzzle. Private sector employers, professional associations, universities for example don’t have their act together when it comes to recognizing, validating or upgrading foreign credentials. So you get these doctors and engineers delivering pizzas and driving taxis because we admit them based on their professional credentials but then when they get here employers and professional associations etc don’t know what to do with them and don’t have the time or interest to look into it. For example Doug Fords conservative government only just this month banned employers from requiring Canadian work experience as part of the initial application. I certain that in the coming years just about every academic department in just about every post secondary school will have a fast-track program to validate:upgrade foreign-educated immigrants and issue Canadian credentials and Im sure skilled trade groups will eventually come up with something similar. Nope you just misunderstand and have completely lost track of the topic amd then in typical CdnFox fashion you not only attacked me based on your misunderstanding but even when I specifically said longer hours don’t increase efficiency but you falsely accuse me of getting that wrong only to basically say the same thing I did. Lets take a pause here to reflect on how you get emotionally triggered on here and start speed-reading, missing things, posting in knee-jerk reaction before you even finish reading the sentence and don’t even absorb the point or context of what you’re reading OK, continuing on…. 1) I never said automation is bad or doesn’t improve corporate productivity. Remember your point was about businesses being discouraged from investing to make workers more productive. These are 2 different things and companies online really care about the first thing When a company talks about making your work “more productive” they only mean making the work you do more cost efficient for their benefit , not more time efficient for your benefit 2) I said Canadian businesses don’t invest to make workers more productive. They invest in unoriginal ideas like automation and longer work hours. I even said longer work hours only boost output not efficiency but you clearly missed that. I’l expand on that further only by saying that when productivity is measured in dollars of output vs dollars of input, and the company wishes to boost output it’s usually more productive to have existing employees work longer hours than to hire additional employees. That’s especially true for salaried roles where you don’t have to pay employees extra by the hour. They can just say “these are your new performance targets” and employees will work late as needed just to meet them 3)Automation tends to eliminate workers it doesn’t necessarily make them more productive. In your example when a customer contact centre is automated the employees are usually just laid off, they’re rarely retrained to become engineers or sales managers etc. And automation tends to mostly affect low pay-low skill jobs so the company’s overall productivity isn’t improved outside of sectors like manufacturing and mining and the like that employ lots of low skill workers. 4) my overall point is that for generations, Canadian companies have always been notorious for not investing and for the “productivity gap”. There’s always some excuse based on current events but it’s simply a cultural problem because our economy is dominated by foreign ownership, natural resources and near-monopolies and therefore our business culture has developed small-minded provincial, parochial mindset.

Dude you are batshit crazy Defending his own country on his own soil from invasion, what a Napoleon! Dude Putin is the invader and therefore the Napoleon. How slow are you?

I don’t know I’m sure if you got on your hands and knees and blew me Id recognize you right away from you constantly blowing Putin. Your very late attempt at justifying the absolute mountain of Kremlin-published bullsh1t you’ve spewed is an allegation from a site known as an “anti-semitic conspiracy website” which asserts that Ukraine must cede all currently occupied territory to Russia. Amd the whole reason Ukraine refused is because of one visit from a British PM nearly 2 years ago at the very start of the war and who left office soon after. The claim is just ridiculous on its face. I tell you there’s not a country on this earth that happily goves up sovereign territory to invaders just for peace. What would be the point of even having a mili? And of course hypocritically you believe Israel should continue its fight against Hamas no matter how many’s civilians die rather cease an inch of land or engage any peace talks. And that’s how I know you are a full of absolute shyte. I’m he best part will be when the war is over and you will be refusing to acknowledge that you eventually supported Russia We will being it up over and over and you’ll either refuse to respond to the post or “but Hunter Biden” it or just reply with a generic insult as you always do when you’re getting your ass handed to you.