Retired Pilot, Gov’t of Canada
@girlfreddy ok let me look back. i may have a weak argument . i was responding to your post about you feeling canada needs arm(s) twisting from USA to spend more on military . how much of our military purchases in USA are really helping Ukraine? how much is syphoned off to the Netanyahu regime? how much to paramilitaries in Colombia and Bolivia? Remember,LaPaz ? the general was caught. my opinion is we need fund our own needs before others’ vain quests.
@girlfreddy Persinally, i feel we let the USA push us around too much. Who are we protecting on our north? who’s interests do we serve? I am old an tired , but we more to angry with Charles de Gaulle than Leonit Brezhnev. and NATO and the USA did not come to our help in October 1970. What will big subs do? did they help in afghanistan? will subs help First Nations save their territories in the face of massive climate change fires? clean water. not weapons. jmho
@girlfreddy the problem is up here in New Brunswick as well. Yes, many landlords can be negligent; but I observed that a lot of water and sewage infrastructure was poorly made back in the 1970s especially. condemnation must widen
We should have known slapped together cars and trucks of the malais era. poor quality extended into building materials and beyond. Even today manufacturers like Boeing will try to slip through substandard parts. Instead of fixing the problems, they send lawyers.
@girlfreddy ok thats much more clear. i am with you on that. I sit here in what’s left standing of a NORAD air base and up the road from what was a Pinetree Line Station. Sure, things have changed and become more portable, but we would be sadly unprepared ; not only in a military threat, but also in a weather or other related catastrophe. we would be blind and deaf . we cant place responsibility on the big telcos. our interesrs wouls conflict. wemust keep infrastructure