South Korea pitches Canada on $20B-plus plan for subs, armoured vehicles (1 Viewer)

[Fearandloathing]

Korea wants to take America's place as Canada's armorer. Competition is good for the buyer and the very existence of this offer will discourage America from trying to use weapons sales as leverage for their 51st state bullshit.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/south-korea-canada-submarines-artillery-defence-1.7523180

Huh!

I actually believe something tangible will come out of this.

I was still a parliament hill radio reporter when the current discussions about fighter/bombers began. It was yet another decade when the "billions" to be spent of the then less-than-state-of-the-art aircraft was a populist outrage! We were reminded of our duties regarding defense of North America to which our leaders turned to "NORAD" as if that were the epitome of modern technology.

After all that the 'achievement' was claim to an almost permanent base in the Arctic.

Knowing the Asian will and some Koreans I suspect they could very will likely be successful here. In the current anti-Trump atmosphere it would be a VERY Popular move.

Trump once said he shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with. Today, ANY Canadian government can waste as much as they like...so long as it allows Alberta to ship oil and it annoys Trump.

There's very little in the archives, but I can't find any time where a single individual as so universally despised as His Royal Majesty.

 

[Allan]

Huh!

I actually believe something tangible will come out of this.

I was still a parliament hill radio reporter when the current discussions about fighter/bombers began. It was yet another decade when the "billions" to be spent of the then less-than-state-of-the-art aircraft was a populist outrage! We were reminded of our duties regarding defense of North America to which our leaders turned to "NORAD" as if that were the epitome of modern technology.

After all that the 'achievement' was claim to an almost permanent base in the Arctic.

Knowing the Asian will and some Koreans I suspect they could very will likely be successful here. In the current anti-Trump atmosphere it would be a VERY Popular move.

Trump once said he shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with. Today, ANY Canadian government can waste as much as they like...so long as it allows Alberta to ship oil and it annoys Trump.

There's very little in the archives, but I can't find any time where a single individual as so universally despised as His Royal Majesty.

Purchasing arms from the US would be a very unpopular thing to do. Canadians are being discriminate in our purchasing and we'd expect the government to do the same.

 

[Fearandloathing]

You’re dancing around the question. Where is Canada’s Boeing or Saab? Why doesn’t that exist instead of throwing hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts at foreign entities?

That makes absolutely no sense.

SAAB? Why the **** would we want a bankrupt auto maker when the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans ans Philipinos are lined up for our metals and minerals? The Chinese have been snapping up our technology to harvest rare earth.

If you're suggesting we should be in the aircraft business, I question your sanity.

And the "foreign entities" happen to be mainly the United States.

Now ask yourself how it became that way? When the aircraft industry was emerging around the world was Canada's entry, the Avro Arrow, given consideration....?

It was scrapped, all machinery and so forth was ordered destroyed by John George Diefenbaker at the demand of Dwight Eisenhower. If we had continued, Amerika would have retaliated.

A lot of what Americans complain about was made that way by America

 

[Fearandloathing]

Purchasing arms from the US would be a very unpopular thing to do. Canadians are being discriminate in our purchasing and we'd expect the government to do the same.

Now, yes.

Before now?

 

[Allan]

Now, yes.

Before now?

Before now made sense. US arms manufacturers operate in Canada which creates jobs. It also made sense to purchase kit that had common use amongst NATO countries.

 

[Fearandloathing]

Before now made sense. US arms manufacturers operate in Canada which creates jobs. It also made sense to purchase kit that had common use amongst NATO countries.

You're kind of belaboring the obvious.

What will play on "main street" Canada is cancellation of business with the Trump.

They're kind of different entities now. Americans get our sympathy with a "hurry home now...", where elected officials get shit storms.

There are no less than three essay on Pierre Poilievre and how his "weak" stand against Trump cost him the election.

It's total bullshit bu that's what the losers are saying.