ExFlyer

Wrong, while sold as multi role, in Canadian configuration, it was very quickly realized it was not. Immaterial anyway as, even you admit, it was never deployed and not even thought of being deployed especially in an expeditionary role. Canada does not and never had the resources to support F18 ops outside of Canada.

Hey dude, just repeating your posts. Changing your posts only makes you look like backtracking.

No dougie, the army does not fight alone, it is supported by many parts of the Military, ours and our allies. You may be on patrol in your vehicle alone but, you got the vehicle and all the accoutrements from somewhere and someone else.. F18's were never deployed to army support as it is not a ground support aircraft. The Navy has difficulty sailing in the mountains and desert. LOL Those are probably the most foolish statements you have made LOL The Griffons and Chinooks transported and support you throughout. and, as you are, or should be aware, they are not attack helicopters. Again, your statements are one of a narrow minded low ranking soldier. If you were a MCpl and in charge of men than you should know what support you got from who, when and what for.

Oh, changing your story to make it sound better?? LOL. Was it walking by his NDMC room or in Sassy's??? Time to concede and bow out of this defence of yours LOL

So what??? It is your argument and points and I am trying to understand you and your need to defend it, that is what. What is the "primary rationale"? That we pay taxes or that the more you earn the more tax you pay? We know this and so does the government and that is why there are taxation groups. I almost allways disagree with CdnFox but, you , on the other hand and in this case, have an indefensible argument and with that in mind, I do agree with him.

I am not sure what you are trying to defend. Fact is, the top 20%, # 1 to #20 pay more taxes than the remaining 80% of Canadians combined. What the top 20 or 15 or 1% make is immaterial. They all pay taxes more than any other taxpayer. The tax rates are the same for all groups. The more you make, the more you pay. Taxes are not based on disposable income. Tax shelters and whatnot are the same for the top 20 or 1% or the 80% of Canadians that pay taxes. Your obsession with the tax rate and who pays what and why is unfounded and in your imagination. We all pay and we all can hide it the same way.

Unfortunately a joke, nowadays, is so over analyzed that someone will somehow make it a hate speech LOL

Are you trying to say the top 1 to 5% are not in the top 20% group? The top 1 to 5% get the same taxation as all in the top 20. LOL The fact is though, the loopholes are available for all. Are you saying the top income earners do not pay what they are supposed to? The entire topic of this thread is that the top 20% earners in Canada pay more tha the remaining 80% put together.... even knowing there are loopholes. Your point is invalid

While you do bring up points, your view and understanding is very narrow minded. You are upset the Army is not getting upgrades yet, they are as well. Your try to compare costs but you cannot . A fighter aircraft and all its technology, test equipment, maintenance, and trainng cost far more than anything the Army has. It costs what it costs. To say the Army is left behind and gets nothing , I dare say the Griffon Helicopters in the Tactical Helicopter Squadrons are for the Army. So were the Chinooks that were leased and eventually purchased. Also, how do you think your troops get to where they need to be or are dispatched? Certainly not in economy seats on Air Canada. The Airbus spends as much, if not more time transporting the troops. The new Airbus will also be able to do air to air refuelling, making it multi tasking. Oh and lets not forget the Transport Squadrons of Hercules that also do so much troop transport and training. As for the F-35, like it or not, Canada has to have something to defend it's sovereignty. While the Army does deploy at government whim, it is fully supported by the rest of the Canadian Armed Forces. The Army does not stand alone.

Lots of banter. I was responding to your statement " "but having met him, I don't think of him like that he was honestly like an oversized boy, he was immature so I remember him as being a tall skinny socially awkward Indian kid who got picked on by the Commando" when in fact, you only walked by his room at NDMC. Stop deflecting and making excuses, he was and is guilty.... period.

None of that has anything to do with the Aga Kahn scandal.

There are about 150 Generals and above and I cannot find the Colonel (Captain in the Navy) numbers but suspect that would be around 400. Military total about 68,000. As for public service EX and above, nearest I can figure is about 15,000. (about 320,000 total public servants) https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/innovation/human-resources-statistics/population-federal-public-service-executive-level.html

Red herring. What others make has long been an issue of envy. Most senior managers have been recruited and lured to the positions with pay and benefits. It is what it is. To get the high level people you want, you need to pay for them. The working class can and do move up the ladders, if they wish but, there is a price to pay to live on the higher floors, be it personal,professional or family. The"poor" (everyday folks like you and me) can take advantage of the tax loopholes that the rich do as well. The choice is yours to make. Sure, close them if you think that will help....help what??

Maybe not but, just to show all public servant senior staff (EX level and above) and as well as senior military officers (Colonel and above) get annual bonuses. Bonuses are a given by all large companies and corporations at a certain level, be they cash or stock options

The topic is about "Top 20% of income earners fund majority of Ottawa's income tax revenue: report". Your meandering into Aga Kahn sideshow is off topic and not part of this. It is about your distaste of Trudeau alone. Yes, he has enveloped himself in scandal but, this topic is not about that. This topic is about the rich paying most of the income taxes and not about systems to catch them...to what end? They already pay taxes. What I am sure of is that you are way off your posted topic of income taxes. If you wish to discuss scandals or business people interfering with government, start a new thread,.

Just so some are aware, the Canadian Military Senior Officers also get "bonus" pay. All senior public servants in every department get annual bonus pay based on self established professional targets, and goals.

All major crown purchases takes years and years. After specs are written and vetted, and request for proposals are issued and the required amendments to the RFP's based on return comments and issues and then actual call for contracts and all bids come in and all bids evaluated and then the winning bid sent to the various departments of interest then the issuance of the contract and then and only then can production start. Then a delivery scheduled is proposed and debated and approved eventually, years later we may get something that may already out of date. The sad thing is that after all the fingers in the pie, the horse the military wanted came out looking like a camel.

Not sure what anything you say has anything to do with the topic statement that "the top 20% of Canadians pay more than the remaining 80% of Canadians in income taxes, federal and provincial." Not sure what you mean by "THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN CAUGHT ILLEGALLY INTERFERING WITH THE RICH!" By the way, if you are implying the rich hide money and do not pay all their taxes, well, so can you. You just need the wherewithal to do it. Also, if the rich hid as much as they could and still pay 80% of all taxes collected, well, that is even more interesting.

Taxing the rich is what everyone is whining about. To find out the top 20% already pay 80% of all the federal and provincial income taxes already has to open some eyes.

I am not sure what you are trying to decipher from the statement. It seems very clear to me. Michael, I am pretty sure the top 20% includes the top 1%? LOL

The "but" is to correct the assumption that the "rich" pay not taxes. It also goes on saying by making them pay an additional 5 to 10% will increase the government coffers the same is proven to be wrong. Asr you somehow thinking that taxation has some sort of "ethical" standard? While I disagree with much of cdnfox positions on things, his post above is full of lines that I have used often and is very realistic. What you want and get form government is what you pay them to give back to you. And, while many on these forums are obsessed with how much CEO's and corporate members make, the fact is that they pay 80% of all income taxes in Canada. So, the rich pay for the rest of us to get what we want.

I thought you said the only time you ever saw him is when you walked past his room in NDMC and all you did was nod to him? "he wasn't completely unaware, he didn't know who I was, he just stared at me with a vacant look in his eyes I wasn't expecting to see him, I just walked past an open room and glanced in then after a couple steps, I thought, holy f*ck that was Matchee so then I looked back in and he stared at me so I just nodded involuntarily in the face of him and he nodded back without any real recognition "

Never once claimed the abuse of a POW order was not illegal. As a matter of fact, I insisted it was. I questioned his many posts trying to justify or deflect to superiors or excuse that they were ordered. Yes, they may have been ordered to abuse but again, my contention was that what this one squad did was an action by only one of the groups that got the same order. If the orders were given, then it was given to all yet only one committed torture, murder and took trophy photos. My disagreement with dougie is not the regiment or the military but that one particular group of men. The down sizing of the military was for all members, not just soldiers. The Air Force lost valuable technicians as well and it created all sorts of problems for the aircraft maintenance community. DND wanted older members near retirement to quit when in fact, younger techs all bailed out and went to work for airlines. What we had left, was very young techs and old snr NCO's. The only thing somewhat good was there were lots of promotions to fill vacancies which bottle necked promotions for many years. In the Air Force, MCpl appointments were to fill first level supervisory positions, to be crew or shop leaders etc and were made on Base or Squadron levels and followed up by official message from Career Managers. (meaning no merit board selection process as per other promotions) I also will never question a soldiers loyalty to a regiment. Like Americans, once a Marine, Hoo Rah, always a Marine. My loyalty is and will always be to SAR as opposed to fighter or transport or Tac Hel squadrons.

Incorrect, there was more than one squad operating in theatre. Only one tortured and murdered. This was a rogue operation , crime and group. Nothing systemic, just one bunch of over eager bullies. Rough them up is not an order to torture and murder. I can comment on your posts and comments and a report, an action or anything else. You do it so well when you don't know what acronyms or even the situation is. I am sure there are many many acronyms that you do not know regarding Navy or Air Force and even Army issues, situations, specifics. Do not play a silly game here. You are wrong in to your defence of Matchee and his ilk. So, what is ISCC? and as an appointed lower rank, what authority doe it give him? Why do you need so many posts to address one subject??? If you know so much, how come you don't know that "3.08 – MASTER CORPORAL APPOINTMENT (1) The Chief of the Defence Staff or such officer as he may designate may appoint a corporal as a master corporal. (2) The rank of a master corporal remains that of corporal. (3) Master corporals have seniority among themselves in their order of seniority as corporals." "The rank, formally an appointment as a senior corporal, gives the MCpl authority over all privates and corporals. As such, a MCpl is a first level supervisor who will be assessed on his/her ability to manage and develop subordinates." So, click your heels at that LOL The rank, formally an appointment as a senior corporal, gives the MCpl authority over all privates and corporals. As such, a MCpl is a first level supervisor who will be assessed on his/her ability to manage and develop subordinates."

Even she is bailing out of his circle. My friends in government have said this has been coming for years.