The focus for ‘Notes from the North’ In Canada, the federal level of government has very specific defined responsibilities: They are: national defence, foreign affairs, employment insurance, banking, federal taxes, the post office, fisheries, shipping, railways, telephones, and pipelines, Indigenous lands, and rights, criminal law. Other responsibilities in Canada are Provincial. The Federal government should be…
Canada’s new wardships, the Canadian type 26 frigate variant is now expected to arrive in 2030 or 2031. Fourteen years after the original 2017 delivery date. This is of course no surprise whatsoever to anyone who has ever watched the Canadian government do military procurement. The ship building programme designed to keep Canada’s ship building…
During the last few federal elections it occurred to me that our elections are becoming more like Halloween night than a serious debate about Canada’s future. It became serious enough to me that the election previous to this past one, I simply didn’t vote. Let me explain. Our elections are simply like a street with…