I am Groot

We don't have time. We saw how fast the military could move when the PM was behind it and ordering things for Afghanistan. Sole source orders were out in weeks for the quick delivery of helicopters, planes, and armored vehicles. Clearly, the current government feels no particular urgency.

Given they had to recall stuff from people working in Ottawa suggests this eq is not assigned ONLY to existing infantry, I have my doubts. There also needs to be some for if reservists are called up. It seems to me that if they recruit another thousand people, it's bad form to tell them "Okay soldiers, we'll be putting in an order for equipment for you which should arrive early next year. Until then, here are some nice golf shirts to wear."

We haven't ordered anything of substance yet. Satellites? Not military. Aircraft? Not military. Space launch? Not military. Assault rifles? (twirling finger in air)

Like for what? That's nice. Three thousand, huh? That's about enough to equip two regiments with none left over. So what do the rest wear? Aren't we supposed to be expanding the size of the military? Clearly, the people ordering supplies don't think we will.

Realistically, other NATO allies weren't going to join them because they're all, including Canada, captive to their new Muslim voting base. Virtually all other NATO allies are run by leftists, and they are reliant on Muslim votes for a significant portion of their power. The US is the only one that has more Jews than Muslims right now, though its Muslim population is growing fast. It also has a conservative (sort of) government not beholden to Muslim votes.

And to date, that 'largest military investment since WW2 hasn't produced anything to speak of. We going to sign a contract to buy/build something someday?

Cute. Meanwhile, guerrillas are now fighting the government with drones in the Congo. Countries like Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Iran are building hundreds of armed drones. The Russians and Ukrainians throw thousands back and forth. The Chinese are building tens of thousands. I don't even want to think about what the North Koreans are doing. Right now, Canada has no ability to survive against a modern opponent, or even a well-armed 3rd world opponent. Imagine even sending them in as peacekeepers somewhere, and being slaughtered by drones thrown at them by 3rd world guerrillas who can't even read or write. But hey, the coast guard now has a couple of drones for fishing surveillance.

This is not about numbers. Numbers are supposed to be just an indication of effort made. Canada hasn't made an effort in generations. Spending a billion dollars each for what is basically an unarmed coastal fishing patrol boat (which the Norwegians or Koreans could build for a tenth that) does not impress anyone. We still have a military with antiquated planes, no armed helicopters, no drones, no modern warships, no tanks to speak of, a deep shortage of armored vehicles, artillery from WW2 era with no ammunition, not enough trucks, not enough radios, no ability to deter or even spot drones, no antiaircraft missiles, no antiarmor missiles (except that group in Latvia, if the systems are finally arrived and working) and vastly more fat assed bureacrats than trigger pullers. The Toronto Police Service has more people with weapons than the military. And just last week they put out an urgent call for bureaucrats to hand in their rucksacks and flak vests because there aren't enough for the few actual soldiers we have. Guys like you are popping your buttons with pride that we spent 2% on defense but most people can see it's all for show. "Hey, let's spend a billion dollars paving a road to nowhere and call it 'defense'. We can overcharge by 70% and split the profits with our friends!"

I don't omit them. Hamas wasn't alone on Oct 7. All the other militant groups in Gaza joined them, as did hundreds of civilians when they saw what was happening. They gleefully joined in the raping, klling and kidnapping. Honestly, the world would be better off if none of them survived. They have been turned into a massive, hard-core death cult by 18 years of Hamas stewardship. And the rest of the Muslims in that region aren't a helluva lot better.

Yeah, we saw that on Oct 7. He has to go. So does anyone who had any responsibility for national security at that time. If he had any sense of honor, he'd have resigned as some of the others have. Israel needs a full, independent public inquiry into how Oct 7 happened, why it took so long to clear the savages out, and who was responsible for the appallingly poor preparation for this attack.

A poor Gaza father cries for his son, practically murdered by the evil Jews (except when hsi foot is itchy).

Watch the Palestinians in Gaza rebuilding...

You are still clinging to that with the desperation of a madman. You take a single sentence and hold it up as some kind of shield for your own poor judgment. Einstein did not support the terrorism of pre-Israel Zionist groups, but he definitely supported Israel. Lefties today are not like in Einstein's time. Today, they hate Western culture, Western societies, Western religions, and Jews. There is no sense of pride in their country. They disdain patriotism and nationalism, deride the land they grew up in, and express unbounded admiration for foreign cultures, as long as they're in brown countries. Canadian Christians are evil because they oppose abortions. Muslims oppose abortions, but that doesn't matter because they're brown. Western Christians are evil for opposing gay marriage. Muslims support throwing gays from rooftops, but that's okay because they're brown. Jews are placed into the 'white' category by the left, and must therefore be held to the most stringent standards. Muslims are brown, so they don't know any better and must be accepted, forgiven, tolerated, and protected. Ah yes, it's always the Jews' fault...

The Chinese have never had a democracy. Half the population of this country are Muslims from the Middle East, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Indians who are Hindus and Sikhs, Sri Lankans who are Buddhists, Filipinos, Eritreans, Ethiopians, Mongolians, Nigerians, Algerians, Kenyans, Somalis, Cubans, Haitians, Jamaicans, etc. None of the people in these countries got along with each ot her, let alone anyone else. Setting foot on the magic dirt of Canada and being handed a passport is not going to change that.

How much does the Left hate Canada, and how hard are they working to destroy any semblance of culture, values, traditions and a shared sense of identity? Just look at how they treat our history. In no other country around the world will you find the level of vilification and deliberate fabrication of a country’s founding hero than in Canada. There is no Macdonald City. There is no Province of Macdonald. There are only a handful of Macdonald schools left in Canada, and most Macdonald statues have been either torn down or carefully removed from public view. The federal government erased his biography from the Government of Canada website. His home in Kingston, Bellevue House, was reopened after six years of renovations in 2024 as a shrine to decolonization and reconciliation. The first words you see when visiting Bellevue House after the visitor centre are “He was a monster.” https://www.junonews.com/p/faulkner-john-a-macdonald-needs-no

TIL that defending yourself when attacked was 'acting like nazis'. Then again, words like 'nazi' and 'fascist' are just epithets the far left throws at any group they hate. And lately, the number of groups they hate has multiplied, along with the intensity of their hate. Right now, Jews are among the most hated.

Of course, there's still much rebuilding going on!

Gaza is partytown!

Let's not forget the misery of Palestinian 'camps' in the West Bank. Oh the horrors!

The poor starving of Gaza!

We've had the wrong kind of immigration for over fifty years. We've brought in people from cultures that are hostile to ours, with religions that preach violence against us, and encouraged them not to change, not to abandon those cultures and not to integrate. I also disagree about the need for immigrants at all. The idea the population must always expand is a ponzi scheme that is doomed to fail. Let it fail now as we see AI coming on stream and robotics rapidly developing, both of which, separately and together, will eliminate millions of jobs. Countries have lost citizens in the past, their populations dropping, sometimes by half. And you know what happens? Wages go higher, housing costs go lower. Children become valued, and people have more of them. No one can tell me how Canada is a better place to live now than it was back in the 1960s when our population was 20 million. Ireland is importing Muslims from North Africa, and now there are riots in the streets as sexual assaults skyrocket. Just like in the rest of Western Europe. Oddly enough, Poland and Hungary seem to be doing just fine without immigration.

Yeahhhh, no. There's always been greed. Always been demagogues, always been ignorance. Was there less of this a hundred years ago than there is now? The difference was that a hundred years ago, people couldn't vote themselves free benefits because there were no government benefits. Go back a hundred and fifty years, and the government was a shell, with little power to do much, and voting rights restricted to men who owned property. But we didn't have the concept in our collective heads that productive citizens should be taxed to give a healthy man money for doing nothing for an indefinite period. Now we do it for people who weren't born here and weren't invited, who just arrived, sat down and held out their palms!

Note the terror on the children's faces under this not at all staged attack!

The poor starving of Gaza!