I hope that in late October the brand-newly minted Conservative Minister of National Defence will, on the very first day that she or he takes office, meet with General Jonathan Vance, the Chief of the Defence Staff. The meeting may take place in the minister's hotel suite because the new minister will not, yet, have … Continue reading I hope …
So now he’s ours
I see, on the CBC News website, that the UK has revoked the citizenship of Jack Letts, known as Jihadi Jack, a young man whose claim to Canadian citizenship is based on the fact that his father, who has lived in the UK for years, is a Canadian national. It not clear that Jack Letts has … Continue reading So now he’s ours
Smart move
Just as I said, about a month ago, that the Trudeau government was right to add Chantier Davie, in Quebec, to the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy, so I think that the Trudeau regime is right, today, to award a sole-source contract to General Dynamics Land Systems, in London, ON, spending, according to CTV News, "$3 … Continue reading Smart move
One step too far
According to a column by John Ibbitson in the Globe and Mail, Parliament's Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion said, in his report last week, that "“Nine witnesses informed our Office that they had information they believed to be relevant, but that could not be disclosed because, according to them, this information would reveal a confidence” ... … Continue reading One step too far
Birds of a feather
Garnett Genuis, the Conservative MP for the Alberta riding of Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan and the deputy (to Erin O'Toole) critic for foreign affairs, is featured in a brief (supplied by him?) opinion piece for the Sherwood Park-Strathcona County News (for which he wrote a column, off and on, since he was 15) in which he suggests … Continue reading Birds of a feather
I think he’s got it …
Tom Mulcair, the former Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and the former leader of the NDP and a pretty good lawyer in his own right explains our national problem in this video. Please watch it, it's only six minutes. "This," the Trudeau PMO conduct in the SNC-Lavalan affair, he says, "is third world behaviour, … Continue reading I think he’s got it …
Hong Kong (9)
A friend sent me the link to this video from Fox News; please pay attention to the remarks by Brigadier General (retired) Robert Spalding of the Hudson Institute at about 1:00 to 1:30. Dr/Gen Spalding is quite right: "A little bit more than 240 years ago, those kids would have been our founding fathers, actually … Continue reading Hong Kong (9)
