Trudeau said the money saved by scrapping the F-35 procurement would go primarily to increasing spending on the Royal Canadian Navy. Just watched an interview with Canada’s Minister of Procurement, Filomena Tasi re Canada’s purchase decision to buy F35s. She certainly didn’t give reasonable answers to questions about how we wound up with an aircraft…
NDP resolution to Abolish Canada’s Military – An article by Robert Smol – Toronto Sun This once there may be some common ground between ‘Notes From The North’ and the NDP. Not that the birdbrained idea of abolishing Canada’s military has any level of sanity, particularly in the current world environment. Since Mr. Smol did…
Trudeau, who currently is as popular as a rat at a picnic, wants to ensure that we have to endure him for another 4 years. Desperately he is making a deal with the NDP. This will ensure that the overriding policy for the next four years will be spend, spend, spend based on an NDP…
Any Canadian who has been paying attention to Canada’s defence position is not the least surprised by either of the above headlines. Most Canadians live in a mythical world when it comes our military and our national defence. The first myth is that somehow the U.S. will defend Canada for us. This is simply not…
Lately there has been a distinct call for freedom. Freedom convoys of like minded truckers in Canada, the U.S. and other western countries have been vocal in their indignation at their governments for taking away their freedom. Even in small towns like Huntsville Ontario, supporters stand on the side of the road with posters and…
Lee Berthiaume – The Canadian Press: – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opened the door on Monday to spending more on Canada’s military, but stopped short of any firm commitments. “We need to make sure that the women and men who served in the Canadian Armed Forces have all the equipment necessary to be able to…
March 10, 2022, CTV News.ca General Wayne Eyes, speaking at a defence conference in Ottawa says the threat of an invasion by Russia of Canada’s north is very low. Having been asked about Russians occupying one of Canada’s northern islands as they did in Crimea, he said the risk of that right now is very…
As Canadians, and as with most Canadians, we are pretty much up to date on US News. There’s really no way to avoid it. So here are our unsolicited thoughts, Shut up already! Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Marjorie-Taylor-Green, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, there Big Orange leader, and a host of others…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has Jason Kenney and others making the case for more Canadian oil and gas, but the path forward isn’t so clear cut By Drew Anderson Blah Blah Blah – Unlike the opinions in Mr. Anderson’s article , here at ‘Notes from the North’ we see a simpler Canadian solution. Drew Anderson and…
WHY? – NORAD By Their Policy ‘DOES NOT PROTECT CANADA’! A new CTV news article cites Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine as a reason for Canada to increase its funding of NORAD, the ‘North American Aerospace Defence Command’. What the article doesn’t say is that since 2017 it has not been the policy of the…