ExFlyer

The role of the aircraft is more important than the paint. If it is passengers, then it uses one version cargo different version. Paint is not important.

So does Gatineau and I think many (most) towns along the Quebec side of the Ottawa River.

Now that is one of the dumbest things I have read in a long time LOL "requisite amount of hatred for him."??? There is some sort of score card??? A hate meter??? A hatred scale??? Now that is as low as political bigotry can get, having "a requisite amount of hatred for him"..

Military experts, well, Pugliese, form the Ottawa papers, used to be a good reporter until he started to spout opinion. He is not well liked in the military community, not for his reporting but for his opinions. He does not get interviews anymore so, he has become a hater in the opinion of military personnel. Esprit de Corps used to be a fantastic pro military magazine then Scot Taylor, the editor became a critic when he was not given access to military personnel and press. He recruited a disgraced military officer Michel Drapeau (who became a lawyer) and started to inundate the Military with freedom of information requests ($5 each request) and sell that information to the press. The officer corps has always been an old boys club. Having lived and worked in Ottawa and NDHQ, I could very much see that. I hate to say this but having been a CWO,/RSM there is also an old boys club in the CWO rank. I attended quite a few CWO/RSM meeting until I could not stand it any more. I sat through 3 monthly meetings where the main topic was what a CWO/RSM ring should look like LOL Anyway, if I read toy correctly, you agree with the ex Air Force officers comments. I agree with him as well.

I truly hope you are just a frustrated person and blowing off steam. Lobbying is not a contract negotiation. Lobbying or advocacy, is the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials. Lobbying is inevitable in any political system or business. Any time one person or group tries to convince another of something, that is lobbying be it one on one or in a public forum.

And to who??? Publish it every week in newspapers??? LOL

Lobbying is not an auditable or validating or verifying thing;. It is two or more people talking. I find it funny that you and some others think you have the right to know what happens and goes on day to day.

Bottom line is if you publically display yourself on social media and the internet, you deserve what is coming to you or at you. Too late to pretend or proclaim you did not mean it LOL Long ago someone told me the internet never forgets. If you are ashamed or embarrassed by what you post, that is only your fault.

To me, lobbying has to be one on one. It is not a bid process for a request for proposal (and even those are not made public). Lobbying is trying to get something and if it was open, then a competitor would be able to poach the idea or benefit. The competitive process would be ruined. The public's interest should be for the public to know something is being done.

The RCMP? When folks start to use social media to make points, to get messages out, to promote themselves, it is not the RCMP that gets their man, it is self promotion and ego that get them caught.

What idea. Contrary to what you may think, I cannot read minds, let alone yours. Please say what you mean.

I read the articles. The only chastising came from an civilian military analyst and one Colonel. I think what he said in his speech wars right on and to the point. I can also see that "those loyal to current CDS" and "the liberal MP's" because both groups got slapped in the face by a deserving honerable Military member. Yes, kudos to him for saying what he did.

So??? What are you implying?

I do not recall you ever making any statements other than there is corruption. Perception is a thing that people that do not know what is going on imagine. Imagination is an open vault, put into it what you think you should, regardless if there is facts or proof. We do have accountability, it is just now known or seen by your standards.

Why do you always act like there is corruption in everything?? Only when you can provide names, numbers and prosecution dates can you actually claim and prove corruption. Till then the only thing that is corrupt is your thought process. Personal perception is not proof. Rather than answering the question you cry corruption LOL

Who was hauled over the coals during an awards speech? For what? When? Please cite. I am not sure what about the article offends you? I agree with his take on the political/military relationship. I do not see a left/right issue in the article. I see an ex military person complaining about the state of the military over the past decades. I am asking because I do not know and never heard of Michael .Maisonneuve till this article.

The government sold out what to who??? The government did not own the land. The carbon credit market is not in Canada. You do not get any and will not ever for owning land so, you have no credit to give to sell to anyone. If you got credit for owning land, Canada has so much land we could get enough credit to pay off our national debt LOL

A little bit of sense form an Airforce prerspetive Michel Maisonneuve: I'm a veteran, I'm allowed to have an opinion, even a conservative one What the CAF needs is proper funding, not permission to wear nail polish and man-buns Last week, Carleton University Prof. Stephen Saideman, a dual citizen of Canada and the United States, blamed the Conservative party for politicizing the Canadian military. Writing in the Globe and Mail, he points to the fact that I would be speaking at the Conservative Party of Canada’s policy convention as support. He reminds readers of the speech I delivered in Ottawa last fall when I received the Vimy Award for my “significant, outstanding and enduring contribution to the defence and security of our nation and the preservation of our democratic values.” There, I spoke against Canada’s rejection of history, embrace of cancel culture and the declining state of the military. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/michel-maisonneuve-criticizing-the-government-does-not-politicize-the-military

not a bunch of BS??? Oh wait, we can get another preaching from blackbud LOL

Uhhh, isn't that what the government did??? Sell off greenbelt to developers? All landowners should get fair market value if the decide to sell. The thing with being in the greenbelt is that they cannot sell. Why should city dwellers have any say in the use of the greenbelt? If they want trees, they can go to designated municipal or provincial or federal parks.

Really? Where is that market and what is a carbon credit worth in dollars and cents on the open market? Is there an open market?

What BS. The King James bible, utter hearsay and full of rhetorical stories and BS.

I boycotted Jan Arden decades ago when every Canadian media source tried to make her a star. Now she plays politics instead of music and still is not a star.

Nope but, I would like to see the landowners get fair market value for their land if they cannot sell it. Then again, I see no value to the greenbelt. The exception is farmers as they can still use the land and make money. If it was my land, I would not be happy just letting it sit dormant and do nothing for me except making a tree hugger hundreds of miles away happy And who is Terrance Corcoran and why is he important enough to make it A topic??? I really think they can spend dollars and cents more than carbon credits LOL

Has been the request form the Canadian military for decades. Oh and we did buy new Airbus aircraft to replace the old ones.