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kEiThZ said:
We've restricted sharing Intel with the US on the Caribbean for anything they can use on kinetic strikes.

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To be honest, I don't know why it took so long to distance ourselves from whatever the f US is doing in the Caribbean right now. "Shoot first, ask questions later" is not something you want to be associated with. And especially after the double-tap strikes on these boats by the US last fall, the whole operation smells rotten.

And honestly, intelligence sharing of any kind with the US should have been stopped once Tulsi Gabbard was appointed as the Director of National Intelligence - the clearest case of a compromised Russian asset.
 
Full Metal Junkie said:
To be honest, I don't know why it took so long to distance ourselves from whatever the f US is doing in the Caribbean right now. "Shoot first, ask questions later" is not something you want to be associated with. And especially after the double-tap strikes on these boats by the US last fall, the whole operation smells rotten.

And honestly, intelligence sharing of any kind with the US should have been stopped once Tulsi Gabbard was appointed as the Director of National Intelligence - the clearest case of a compromised Russian asset.
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Two points.

1) When something is done and when it is publicly disclosed can be and usually are different timelines. Particularly for units actually deployed.

2) Our legal and ethical obligations don't change when deployed or attached to other militaries. So we can still refuse to share information or refuse to act locally if we believe in contravenes our orders and/or ethics. You must definitely won't hear about those cases in the news.
 

NDP MP Lori Idlout crossing floor to Liberals, party leader says​

Lori Idlout has represented Nunavut in the House of Commons since 2021​

New Democratic Party MP Lori Idlout is crossing the floor to join the Liberals, NDP Leader Don Davies said Tuesday evening. "We're very disappointed that Lori Idlout has decided to join the Liberal caucus," Davies said. "The position of the New Democrats on floor crossing is longstanding and clear. We believe that when someone rejects the decision of their electors and wants to join another party, they should put that decision to their voters." The move gets Prime Minister Mark Carney closer to a sought-after majority in the House of Commons. It drops the NDP down to just six MPs and brings the Liberals up to 170 seats. CBC News has reached out to Idlout and the Prime Minister's Office for comment. Idlout has represented Nunavut in the House of Commons since 2021.
 
Admiral Beez said:
She was having nun of it. I’ll show myself out.
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Much like with Chris D'Entremont and Matt Jeneroux there was an active attempt to get her to cross. First the government gave her riding a bunch of federal funding in the budget. Then in January she declined to cross. A week or two ago, she endorsed Avi Lewis in the NDP leadership race... safe to say, that one is off the table now... LOL.
 
Mihairokov said:
Feds also picked up Dolly Begum to run in Scarborough, who was the Deputy Leader of the provincial NDP. NDP are DOA.
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I am aware, and I just think that shows just how impotent the federal NDP is right now. But it also shows that the NDP and Liberals, their supporters and even MPs, are not that different, despite what you hear NDP supporters say all the time about how Carney is supposedly in their view, a warmongering austerity lovin, union busting genocide man. It also shows the difference between the provincial NDP branches, which are a lot more serious and moderate, vs the federal NDP which is clown shoes and looney.
 
So.. in a weird twist of events I am going to be voting for the Green Party this go around in Scarborough Southwest.

As it turns out, I once went on a date with the Green Party Candidate years ago. Lovely woman and from what I know of her, she has potential to be an amazing MP.
 
As bad as you think the Carney gov't is, the worse they are every day.

Canadian Armed Forces personnel were attacked in Kuwait on March 1. We only found out about it today. No one hurt.

This is why Carney announced he supported the US strike, but regretted his support for the strike, but might join the war, but would never join the war.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kuwait-attack-canadian-camp-9.7126481
 
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PM Carney announces $35B investment in Arctic defence, Northern infrastructure

Mark Carney has announced an ambitious new plan to defend and transform Canada’s North, which involves investing $35 billion in infrastructure for its military air bases and two northern airports.
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PM Carney announces $35B investment in Arctic defence, Northern infrastructure​

Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced an ambitious new plan to defend and transform Canada’s North, which involves investing $35 billion in infrastructure for its military air bases and two northern airports.

Money for these new military investments is not allocated in Budget 2025, and it is unclear when construction on these projects will begin. The modernization of northern military bases was first announced in 2022, as part of Canada’s contributions to North American Aerospace Command, or Norad.

A news release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) stated that “previous governments had lacked the scale and the breadth of strategy that the vast region demands.

“But Canada’s new government has the ambition and capacity to do this.”

Carney said his government will “defend fully Canada’s Arctic and North, deter new threats and support NATO allies and Norad continental defence.”

The news release says that 140,000 Northerners and Indigenous Peoples are at the centre of this plan, which will provide “stronger, more sustainable, more connected communities, greater opportunities and a lower cost of living.”

The plan includes investing $32 billion at forward operating military bases in Yellowknife, Inuvik, N.W.T., Iqaluit, Nunavut and at Deployed Operating Base (DOB) in 5 Wing Goose Bay in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L.

Two new Northern Operational Support Hubs will be built in the Yukon capital of Whitehorse and in Resolute, Nunavut, while smaller support nodes will be constructed in the Nunavut hamlets of Cambridge Bay and Ranklin Inlet.

The new support facilities will be backed by $2.67 billion.

The investments will go towards improving airfields, hangars, fuel facilities and ammunition compounds.

Carney also announced upgrades to the Rankin Inlet Airport and to the Inuvik Airport runway.

Carney also referred several proposals for northern highway expansions to the Major Projects Office (MPO).

The referrals include providing year-round access to the Mackenzie Valley Highway. The 800-kilometre long highway aims to connect Yellowknife to Inuvik and open up commercial opportunities.

The Grays Bay Road and Port is a proposed all-season road that stretches 230 kilometers from the Nunavut border to a deep water port.

Carney says the MPO will also help fast track approvals for the Arctic Economic Security Corridor, another all season road that also connects to Grays Bay.

The Taltson Hydro Expansion Project, which aims to double hydro capacity for 70 per cent of residents in the Northwest Territories, has also been sent to the MPO.

The Liberal government says it aims to use these investments and proposals to facilitate the development of critical minerals, clean energy and trade corridors to realize the region’s “full economic potential.”
 
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