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All explained in my previous posts. Not a single one of younis actually knowledgeable about the subject you just have liberal derangement syndrome. Investments are happening at record pace, it will still be years before new capabilities are delivered that’s just reality. You think you subs and tanks and aircraft same day like you buy groceries like they’re just fully built and configured and sitting in a shelf ready to use, you just can’t understand how it works even when it’s been significantly expedited it is still a multi-year process. Success is turning a 10year project to a 5 year project not buying stuff overnight if you actually had a CLUE about the subject you would know that

No I answer your ridiculous comments on my own time at my own convenience, as it pleases me. . You scramble to respond to me at all hours of the day or night You follow me from thread to thread and rush to answer me, I don’t follow you or rush to answer you. Because you are MY b1tch. Got it?

You went to a website about a specific project using “UNIQUE GEOLOGICAL FEATURES” in FRANCE to back up tour gibberish statement about all natural gas plants? Are you suggesting every gas plant in North America is sited on top of unique geological caverns? That is gibberish. We have natural gas plants all over Ontario and indeed North America they are not built on top of “unique geological features” . You desperation is ridiculous. Your buzzword of the day seems to be “context” and then you spout this nonsense that has ABSOLUTELY NO BEARING ON THE CONTEXT of the discussion which was about battery grid storage in Ontario. What a joke you are. Of course you don’t. Why would YOU of all people? You don’t know shit from a hole in the wall. Especially on this topic. Your ignorance isn’t a license to ignore inconvenient truths.“Harvard? Yale? Never heard of them therefore they’re not credible!” . Sorry punk, that doesn’t fly. Mostly like us. Some worse Spain just reached 2% and is the only NATO country to declare it has no intention of ever going further, unlike everyone else See this is the game you play that I described where nothing counts as “buying” The announcement doesn’t count . Signing the contract doesn’t count And then when money changes hand and product is delivered it doesn’t count because “it was previously announced and therefore not new” You take advantage of the reality that going from selection to delivery with incremental payments along the way takes months and years so that you can say nothing counts. You also don’t understand that fast procurement means a 10-year project gets shortened to 2-3 years, not 48 hours. Again you don’t understand how the world works. Large orders take time for companies to fulfill and deliver Producers have other customers and backlogs and wait lists. I know EXACTLY what I am talking about. You are the one with the non-existent political knowledge, falsely claiming George W bush balanced budgets when he famously ran record deficits and doubled debt, falsely claiming that “the left” supported Hitler when in fact it was the American RIGHT and you admitted you never even heard of the Spanish Civil War, let alone that “the left” had mobilized by the thousands to fight fascism there while republicans lauded Hitler’s reforms. The bridge is both things, a troll of Canada and MAGA bribery These are not mutually exclusive things Let’s recall that your first point was that they don’t believe we will actively any money which is false Now let’s debunk your false claim that they’ve simply said they’ll take our money if we offer it The Koreans and Germans are FIERCELY COMPETING for that sub contract making MAJOR offers to invest in Canada across the entire economy in space, energy, manufacturing and so on. Yes I have mentioned many times the 7 new aircraft Carney ordered which you continue to ignore Every time The sub contract will be awarded this year probably before the summer is out which is LIGHTNING SPEED. It is already many years ahead of schedule. Seriously this has all been widely reported in the media and mentioned on this thread numerous times. As with all you right wing internet hacks and MAGAs in general I can’t tell where your ignorance ends and where your dishonesty begins. No you don’t understand. That’s clear. You don’t start information and then work your way to a conclusion. You start with you preferred conclusion and then cherry pick only the selective facts that confirm your bias while remaining generally uninformed about the topic. That’s what internet rage-baiters do which is pretty much all of the right wingers who spend their lives on this forum. The DIA only takes on certain projects and DICE wasn’t one of them Subs are moving a record pace. New assault rifle acquisition was expedited by 2 years and contract was awarded This is a non-exhaustive list of the DIA projects where contacts have now been awarded, with others moving along at pace. You will completely ignore this part of my post and not respond it won’t you? Airlift Capability Project – Multi-role Flight Service Canada will replace its aging CC-144 Challenger fleet with modern, long-range aircraft to ensure safe, reliable transport for government and military personnel while improving efficiency Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar This radar system will provide long-range detection of airborne threats in the Arctic, significantly improving early warning capabilities CC-130J Hercules upgrades In-service support for and upgrades to the Royal Canadian Air Force’s CC-130J fleet will ensure continued support for tactical airlift operations Defence Enhanced Surveillance from Space This North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) modernization project is aimed at improving Canada’s ability to detect and track threats using advanced space-based surveillance technologies Enhanced Satellite Communications Project – Polar This project will improve and modernize NORAD radar capabilities while also enhancing satellite communications Canadian Modular Assault Rifle Phase 1 includes procuring 30,000 General Service (GS) rifles Phase 2 will include procuring the remaining 19,207 GS rifles, 16,195 Full Spectrum (FS) rifles, as well as associated ancillaries. Yes the Americans are stupid, no their trolling is not due to some genuine principled and honest concern. Yes we are spending more, no the SMALL cutbacks to SUPPLEMENTS for DEPLOYED members don’t even REMOTELY come close to the MASSIVE increases to BASE PAY for ALL members, No the announcements would not “make us the toughest country in the world” and of course our preparedness shouldn’t have improved YET because even fast moving projects take years to order and deliver. A fact you don’t seem to understand.

We know you are, you don’t have to tell us.

No, dummy. Even if Trump’s BOGUS claims about a “nuclear armed Iran” were true, a responsible non-insane leader would still at least THINK about how it negatively impacts Americans and have some sort of program to help mitigate the harm. Especially since he is personally making BILLIONS off his own policies while everyone else suffers from them. But he admits he doesn’t even think about them. . Your usual mouth foam would quadruple if Carney ever said something like that. Your response once again confirms that you are not capable of adult discussion or complicated nuanced thought. That’s what happens when drop out of school and your brain stops developing in your early teens.

Meanwhile back in reality, here’s the bigger context: Trump is ruining the lives of every day people around the world by creating multiple crises that he personally profits immensely from it all. And while he is enriching himself on obscene scale he admits that he doesn’t think about Americans finances, or of anyone Donald Trump cashes in on power, and investors pay the price Just before Donald Trump drops some bombshell news, a bunch of mysteriously well-timed bets are placed, paying off obscene amounts of money once the announcement lands. Suspicious trades have become a fixture of Mr. Trump’s major policy moves, whether they pertain to tariffs, the capture of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro or the war in Iran. It’s almost like someone knows exactly what Mr. Trump is going to say, and when. And now we have new details of Mr. Trump’s own investments. His accounts have executed thousands of stock trades this year alone, plenty of them coinciding with market-moving news initiated by Mr. Trump himself. It’s obvious Mr. Trump is leveraging the presidency for immense financial gain. His first year back in office was the most profitable of his life, bestowing US$3-billion in wealth on the family fortune, according to Forbes. Mr. Trump’s self-enrichment campaign comes at a cost to us all. It rips off those on the other side of those trades. And it undermines the fairness of the public markets. This is bad for anyone with a vested interest in U.S. stocks, which includes pretty much every Canadian. Our major public pension plans alone hold at least $300-billion worth of American equities. There are workplace pensions on top of that. Mutual funds. And the ranks of everyday investors who have piled into U.S. index funds. The cost is not strictly an abstract one. A little more than a year ago, Mr. Trump stood in the Rose Garden and happily pummelled the world with absurd tariffs. In the stock market freakout that followed, defined benefit pension plans in Canada saw their $18.4-billion surplus virtually wiped out in just two days, according to Aon’s pension risk tracker. Their funded ratio dropped to its lowest since June, 2023. A few days after that, some anonymous traders started betting heavily on U.S. stocks. For one fund that tracks the S&P 500 index, the number of contracts leapt to more than 10,000 a minute, up from the hundreds, according to a BBC report. ….In March, more than US$800-million worth of oil futures changed hands just minutes before Mr. Trump announced on Truth Social that strikes on Iran’s infrastructure would be postponed, according to the Wall Street Journal. Same thing a couple weeks ago, as detailed by the influential market commentator The Kobeissi Letter. In the early hours of May 6, someone bet nearly US$1-billion on crude oil shorts, which pay off if the price of oil drops. About an hour later, Axios reported that a deal to end the war in Iran was in the works. Oil prices quickly dove by 12 per cent, and those shorts netted a cool US$125-million. There are also problems with the investments that we know for sure are on the President’s behalf. A U.S. government filing released last week detailed roughly 3,500 stock trades in Mr. Trump’s investment accounts since he returned to office. Some of those trades have their own red flags: A purchase of Nvidia Corp. shares, one week before the U.S. government cleared the company to sell some of its AI chips to China, for example. Mr. Trump’s accounts also loaded up on Palantir Technologies Inc. shares just before he promoted the company on social media. …Meanwhile, the Trump family has gone on a business blitz around the world, parlaying the power of the presidency into lucrative deals with foreign governments – something Mr. Trump restrained in his first term. No more. “I found out that nobody cared, and I’m allowed to,” Mr. Trump told The New York Times in January. He’s right, presidents are exempted from federal financial conflicts-of-interest laws. He’ll walk away rich, and we’ll all be poorer for it. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/inside-the-market/article-donald-trump-stock-insider-trading-bets/P

All the NATO countries were behind all these years, not just Canada so yes they with the exception of USA they all “forgive” Canada and they’re all falling over themselves for Carney rolling out the red carpet for him and lining up to come here to visit to land some juicy defence contracts. Especially Germany Norway Sweden and South Korea. And ALL the NATO countries are also making major donations to Ukraine.. Lots. I have been posting them here as they’ve been announced. When you stab your brain with chopsticks to delete inconvenient facts do you go through your nose or ears? It’s not 5 years but we’re ramping up activity and at the same time placing large orders. You know it’s not like shopping on Amazon where there’s a warehouse full of merch and it just takes a couple clicks of a mouse it it’s delivered in 48hrs. Large quantities are made to order and have to be ordered a long time in advance, the companies don’t just have workers standing around in an idle factory waiting for the phone to ring they are busy fulfilling their existing order book for other clients. So it takes what it takes. Also FYI procurements for things like backpacks don’t go through the new DIA agency Also double FYI the shortage of personal equipment is also because the army is currently phasing out ild stock and phasing in new kit under the DICE program under a contract awarded in March last year (thanks Justin!) and will start delivery this fall Contract awarded for modernized equipment for the Canadian Army’s light forces On March 18, 2025, Canada awarded a contract with an initial value of $19.7 million(excluding taxes) to Logistik Unicorp to supply the Canadian Army’s (CA) light forces with 3,000 units of advanced protective and load carriage equipment. This contract includes the provision of ballistic armour layers, tactical vests, pack systems and associated pouches, as well as options for additional systems and services. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/maple-leaf/defence/2025/05/contract-awarded-for-modernized-equipment-for-canadian-army-light-forces.html More info: Canadian Army’s New Advanced Protective and Load Carriage Equipment from Logistik Unicorp https://soldiersystems.net/2025/06/03/canadian-armys-new-advanced-protective-and-load-carriage-equipment-from-logistik-unicorp/ This is all about the same thing which is trying to browbeat Canada into trade concessions Yes there is a legitimate complaint about Canadas historical lack of military investment but escalating it now AFTER progress is finally being made doesn’t make sense amd the fact that the MAGA troll linked Carney’s Davos speech in his tweet shows this is ideological. On the contrary the Europeans, Koreans and others are beating down our door and rolling out the red carpet for us because of all this spending. We were the only non-European country invited to join SAFE and we have been selected as the host country for the Defence and Security Resilience Bank. We are one of the hottest tickets in town because of our defence spending increase You just don’t understand how long procurement takes. Expediting a 10 year project into a 2-year project is procuring faster But there’s no such thing as procuring new military hardware and taking delivery within 1 year. The sub contract which is the one of the biggest procurement in our history will be awarded this fall or even summer That speed for that size of project is unheard of A lot is happening Recruitment is at record highs, there was the largest pay raise in nearly 30 years, bases are being fully renovated new buildings and hangars and housing is being constructed, new satellites and space systems have been commissioned , New aircraft have been purchased, The army has been completely restructured, I have said this all before and you just continue to pretend not to see it. Edit: oh and HIMARS. We quietly bought 26 US HIMARS system last years apparently for $2.5 billion. Contract signed and everything. Just no public announcement because of optics in the current trade war. It had been in the works for a while. Sadly this is one of those capabilities where there really is no equivalent alternative to the US system Maybe some day.

@CdnFox Oh and looky Canada’s top public defence analysts has to say on his blog, confirming everything I said Q14. How many ACSVs have now been delivered to the Army, and did the ACSV donations to Ukraine negatively impact the Army's readiness? Around 130 last time I checked? Been a while though, so it is likely a bit higher now. We plan to start picking up on deliveries as the Electronic Warfare and Command Post variants come into service. Those should be done by mid-2027. After that, we have the Fitter Cargo Vehicle, MRT, and Engineer variants left to do. Donations to Ukraine have not seriously affected timelines nor readiness. There was a slight rescope when first delivered, obviously, but it is no longer a concern as we ramp up deliveries. Neither is the LAV we donated, as those are coming from the failed LRSS project, which was done either way. Basically, deliveries are starting to go good, Ukraine hasn't seriously damaged anything, and we're now looking at the next phases of our armoured vehicle procurement. https://www.truenorthstrategicreview.ca/p/lets-talk-with-noah-052226-cdc-cuas

No what I said was accurate and you’re a disgusting little liar who lied about what I said. Provide the rxact quote and explain what’s wrong with it. You can’t and you won’t because you know you’re a shameless POS liar and you don’t even know what you’re talking about on this topic. LMAO what argument did I lose? YOU said it was “the best” and I said not necessarily and then you lied and said I called them shit. YOU are such a POS liar you should be ashamed. Meanwhile you’re triggered because I mocked you for saying “cans of gasoline” when you actually said barrels of gasoline as if that’s different. Donations to Ukraine count as per the NATO agreement. Trump likes that because Trump set up the PURL aid program where we all have to biy Ukraine American made weapons he and browbeat everyone to donate to it. The Americans didn’t say a word about that. The Trump admin goons are just trolling us. Every American president has been saying that for decades and they’re not wrong but Trump goons are doing this now because they’re trolling us. The time to pull something like this would have been BEFORE Carney opened the floodgates for new defence spending, not afterwards They are doing this for the same reason they’re delaying the Gordie Howe bridge and making up lies about Fentanyl and calling our PM Governor and demanding that we pre-agree to their trade concession demands before actually starting trade negotiations They are scumbags and trolls, plain and simple If you are assigned to a desk job in Ottawa it seems common sense that you don’t need body armour. I am surprised that wouldn’t already be a requirement to turn it in Anyway, the decades of underfunding are well-known we will be digging our way out for a little time there’s no magic button to simply undo it, these things take time you can’t just snap your fingers and refill stores that have been empty and understaffed for decades These things are made by private for profit companies that have other products for other clients they have their order books, they haven’t just been making extra military kit and storing it this whole time

That’s his gibberish showing he fundamentally doesn’t understand the subject.

Barrels of gasoline is equally ridiculous as cans of gasoline, is it not? Because you can’t. Your last comment on that thread is pure nonsense and an example of how you butted in to defend his ridiculous claims. You attempted to justify his “barrels of gasoline” by saying that gas power plants have “underground caverns” where they store gas for peak demand for some ridiculous reason. You tried to ridicule the fact that grid gas plants are fed by pipeline not by stores gas regardless of whether they are generating during peak demand or low demand The gas flows the plant like the water that flows to your faucet. It’s controlled by a valve There’s aren’t extra power turbines connected to gas in mysterious “underground caverns” Therefore fox’s fictional “barrels of gasoline” and your fictional “underground caverns” don’t exist and don’t provide a substitute for grid scale batteries which actually DO exist and are in use all over the world “Underground caverns”

NATO countries came up with the 2% 3.5% and 1.5% rules and also what does and doesn’t count towards it. It specifically and explores says Coast Guard counts. Period. So you claiming otherwise is the lie. Period. You don’t know wtf you are talking about. The Trump admin has been attacking Canada since they took office because they are malignant trolls not because they are moral people taking a principled stance

The only thing that’s vague is your ability to comprehend. Trump cronies set the eligibility criteria. Trump cronies decide who meets the criteria. Trump cronies decide how much each person gets. Trump cronies oversee the other Trump cronies. Really you couldn’t figure that part out I had to spell it out to you???

So after your initial claim that this is simply justice was debunked 2 have resorted to back to claiming ”now it’s our turn to be corrupt”. As has been pointed out many times in the past this argument is based on multiple fallacies 1) There is no moral or legal justification for being corrupt “because the other side did it first and now it’s our turn”. REAL victims of crime and abuse say “never again” not “now it’s our turn to do the crime and abusing” REAL victims of tyranny don’t say “now it’s our turn to he the dictators” You’re just admitting that YOU are the bad guy. 2) The supposed abuse that you claim the Democrats did is mostly based on lies, exaggerations and otherwise disputed claims You basically are advocating for a society in which ANY group can claim to be entitled to corruption and abuse even if nobody else agrees with them. You think and talk just like a fascist, how do you not see that?

You are asking how will the Trump cronies in charge of all decisions be able to make all the decisions? Seems pretty self-explanatory.

Another unqualified Trump Admin hack walks the plank after failing to earn and keep the naked emperor’s fickle favour To be clear she’s a right winger nut job kook but she’s more the Tucker Carlson flavour, the kind that likes Putin or is Putin-curious and opposes Republicans’ traditional taste for unnecessary US foreign wars That made her an outsider in Trump admin The Atlantic has a good summary: Her Resignation “It’s a measure of Donald Trump’s low regard for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well as its soon-to-be former occupant, that while the commander in chief was making final preparations to invade Venezuela and kidnap its president, Tulsi Gabbard was posting photos of herself from a beach in Hawaii. Gabbard, who informed Trump of her resignation today, spent 15 months as the director of national intelligence—on paper, at least. By law, the DNI is supposed to serve as the president’s chief intelligence adviser. Gabbard never was, and many of her stances were at odds with administration actions. Trump was contemptuous of even her modest efforts to speak truth to power. In the spring of 2025, when Gabbard testified to the intelligence community’s consensus view that Iran “is not building a nuclear weapon,” Trump replied, “I don’t care what she said.” Gabbard has long opposed U.S. military intervention in Iran and did not publicly come out in support of Trump’s decision to go to war. One of her top lieutenants quit in protest of the war. In her resignation letter, Gabbard told Trump that she would step down on June 30, having recently learned that her husband, Abraham Williams, has a rare type of bone cancer. “Abraham has been my rock throughout our eleven years of marriage,” Gabbard wrote. People who know the couple have told me that they are exceptionally close; Williams, a video producer and cinematographer, has filmed Gabbard throughout her time in public service, including when she took a trip to Syria to meet the dictator Bashar al-Assad while serving as a Democratic member of Congress. Contrary to the Washington cliché, there’s every reason to think that Gabbard really does want to spend more time with her family. But the Iran war likely made leaving an easier choice. It’s surprising that Gabbard lasted this long in her job. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who served as DNI in Trump’s first term, has assumed the unofficial—and unenviable—role of chief intelligence adviser to a man who operates on gut instinct. Because the president was not interested in Gabbard’s views on intelligence, she tried to get his attention in other ways. Gabbard accused former U.S. officials of mounting a “yearslong coup” against Trump. She railed against the so-called Russia Hoax and attempted to undermine the conclusion, by a bipartisan Senate committee, that Russia had indeed interfered in the 2016 presidential election. And she took revenge on Trump’s perceived political enemies by revoking the security clearances of current and former intelligence officials. None of this won the president’s public admiration, and it did lasting damage to the intelligence community. Gabbard’s decision to place politics ahead of objectivity has deterred intelligence analysts from making assertions that might run counter to the administration’s preferred storylines, current and former officials have told me. To bolster her baseless claims, Gabbard declassified U.S. intelligence material—sometimes over the objections of the CIA—and publicly misrepresented what those documents actually said. Gabbard’s claim to have “uncovered weaponization” in the intelligence community gave Trump another dubious talking point in his unrelenting campaign of political revenge. Gabbard fired two senior intelligence analysts after they wrote an assessment that contradicted Trump’s efforts to link Venezuela’s president to a criminal gang. Trump’s tortured claims played a role in justifying his attack on Venezuela—a supreme irony for the supposedly anti-interventionist DNI. By law, it was Gabbard’s responsibility to advise policy makers on life-and-death decisions and help them make sense of the torrent of intelligence that streams into U.S. spy agencies every day. Instead, she made her position a platform for promoting distortions and undermining public confidence in the very institutions she’d sworn an oath to lead. The ODNI has long been a weak agency. It never really fulfilled the mandate that was set out for it two decades ago, when Congress tried to correct the failures that had led to the 9/11attacks by creating another layer of bureaucracy on top of the already-unwieldy intelligence community. “Gabbard’s tenure has demonstrated just how easily an organization like ODNI that lacks clear mission and impact can become overly politicized and move away from the kind of objectivity and truth-seeking required for good intelligence work and U.S. national security,” William Walldorf, a professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University and a senior fellow at the think tank Defense Priorities, told me. Toward the end of her tenure, the most salient question to ask about Gabbard was: Why does she stay? She had suffered the humiliation of being shut out of the big meetings and dismissed by the president, only to see the United States bogged down in a new war. When I’ve posed the question to people who have worked with Gabbard in the legislative and executive branch, they tend to offer a simple explanation: She wants power (and they don’t mean that as a compliment). Former congressional staff described her to me as the most ambitious person they’d ever met in Washington. American and foreign intelligence officers told me that she is unfailingly charming and warm in person; in less flattering language, they called her calculating, cautious, and keenly aware of the importance of cultivating her image. In every sense, then, a natural politician. Gabbard ran for president once, as a Democrat. If she decides to give it another shot, she has an opening among Trump supporters. The president’s decision to attack Iran is polling poorly among voters. Gabbard remains admired among formerly MAGA-friendly media influencers who have lost patience with the president and feel that he has betrayed his pledge to not lead the nation into wars of choice. The podcaster Joe Rogan, who called Trump’s war on Iran “nuts,” is a friend of Gabbard’s, and he recently praised her as “amazing” and “the same person on air, off air”; he concluded succinctly, “She’s cool as f-ck.” Because Gabbard wasn’t involved in some of the president’s most unpopular decisions, she can’t easily be blamed for them. That gives her a strange credibility in an administration that prizes loyalty over candor. Being an outsider in the Trump administration may turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to Gabbard’s career.”

It is defence spending that counts to the NATO target. NATO says so explicitly. End of story

I said nothing of the sort in fact I said some decent things about the LAV which I actually like. It’s just not objectively “best in the world” . Provide the quote where I said they were “crappy” or “shit” or admit you’re a disgusting shameless liar. Since you can’t provide the quote the admission is basically already made. Look we all know you internet conservatives STRUGGLE with critical thinking and nuance low-IQ types like you only deal with extremes if it’s not “best in the world “ it must then be “shit” and you can’t mentally grasp the concept of a spectrum or alternatives or something is great for some purposes but not for others. Just like you can’t grasp the concept that SOME defence spending is new and SOME is reallocated, or that someone who disagrees with you might be a moderate with good intentions instead of a EVIL COMMUNIST MARXIST. As they say in star wars “only a sith deals in absolutes” obviously if we didn’t give away those 50 vehicles we would have 50 more in service than we have now. I haven’t seen anything that says the Army has suffered from that in the short term, it’s not like they have zero vehicles . the entire army doesn’t sit in high readiness posture 100% of the time you know, units rotate from high to low they don’t all need to be equipped at once. Plus, the army gets to see these vehicles perform in an ACTUAL combat theatre and learn lessons from Ukraine. The Trump administration is a pack of trolls they made it clear that their motive is payback for the DAVOS speech It’s hilarious how you continue to pretend Trump admin are principled, rational honest people with values and morals. As already explained Per NATO COast guard and donations to Ukraine and other NATO members are legitimate expenses. The “trees” are part of legitimate housing construction and base maintenance expenditures. It was not $2 billion dollars as you completely made up.

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-coast-guard/news/2026/05/minister-mcguinty-announces-816-million-investment-to-strengthen-canadas-maritime-security.html Conservative and MAGA dipshits say: “Doesn’t count because Something something I will think of an excuse later! Delete memory! Delete memory! He’s done nothing! He’s done nothing! NOTHINGGGGGG! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!”

Minister McGuinty announces $816 million investment to strengthen Canada’s maritime security May 22, 2026 – Iqaluit, Nunavut – National Defence / Canadian Coast Guard Today, the Honourable David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence, announced a foundational investment of $816 million over seven years to strengthen maritime security and expand the Canadian Coast Guard’s role in monitoring Canada’s waters. Key projects that will strengthen the Canadian Coast Guard’s Arctic maritime domain awareness and federal visibility include: creation of a year-round Maritime Domain Awareness Hub in Iqaluit, Nunavut, for collecting and analyzing maritime intelligence; addition of reconnaissance equipment to helicopters operating across the country, including in the Arctic, to support security patrols; establishment of four new Arctic long‑range marine radar sites at strategic points along the Northwest Passage and the Hudson Strait; and acquisition of short- and medium-range endurance aerial, surface and subsurface drones to extend the reach of the Canadian Coast Guard from land or sea. As a key federal presence in the North, the Canadian Coast Guard plays a vital role in Canada’s maritime security system, working alongside federal and Indigenous partners. The Strengthening Canada’s Immigration Systems and Borders Act gives the Canadian Coast Guard a new security mandate, with authority to conduct security patrols and collect, analyze, and disclose information and intelligence to security and enforcement partners. This authority allows valuable information collected by the Canadian Coast Guard to be leveraged to detect and respond to threats in Canadian waters. This change is particularly significant in the Arctic, a region that is rapidly evolving with growing global interests, increased vessel traffic, and complex security risks. Investing in more capabilities and tools better prepares Canada to respond to emergent security threats and assert our sovereignty. Strong partnerships with Inuit across Inuit Nunangat remain a priority for the Canadian Coast Guard in alignment with these new investments. Combined with new capabilities and reinforced relationships, these investments will improve real‑time situational awareness, reinforce year‑round operations in the North, and support the protection and sovereignty of Canada’s northern waters. Canada must be able to see and respond to all activities in its waters. With its fleet and operational expertise, the Canadian Coast Guard is well-positioned to advance national maritime security priorities across the country, and in collaboration with the Department of National Defence, the Canadian Armed Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canada Border Services Agency and other security partners. Quotes https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-coast-guard/news/2026/05/minister-mcguinty-announces-816-million-investment-to-strengthen-canadas-maritime-security.html

Nobody has done more for Putin and China than Trump. Hes the gift that keeps on giving

NOWHERE does it say this fund is exclusively for people whose tax info was leaked or where the government “broke the law.” The Trump cronies will be able to set their own criteria so they can dole it out to whomever they want for whatever amount they want

Fake news censor-boy. Enjoy the fascism

Sure they would they have to make it look plausible. As I said Colbert was top in his timeslot. It’s being replaced with a low cost show with a has-been semi-relevant comic from the 90s that currently airs after midnight and humour will be “non-political” Surely even MAGA goofs can do the math on that.

“.BIDEN DOJ” LMAO TRUMP was president when the Putin acolyte Flynn was prosecuted and pleaded guilty you CLOWN. I wonder how much of those millions found their way to Trump to purchase his pardon.