Canada�s top soldier defends spending delay, says military not hurting for money
DrCaleb @ Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:02 am
Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:
Join the party you affiliate with, get yourself onto the board of directors for your local riding association, and talk about it. Your voice carries a lot more weight when you are a party member, and even moreso when you are attending monthly board meetings with your local MP/riding candidate. I have done this, it was surprisingly easy.
But my cynical side says it was surprisingly easy because they do what all parties do, they say one thing and do something else once elected.
But good luck to you!
bootlegga @ Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:09 am
Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:
Join the party you affiliate with, get yourself onto the board of directors for your local riding association, and talk about it. Your voice carries a lot more weight when you are a party member, and even moreso when you are attending monthly board meetings with your local MP/riding candidate. I have done this, it was surprisingly easy.
So my intent, now that I am a member on the local board, is to present military-related policy changes, including a statute that commits the party to the NATO minimum 2% spending limit. If I can get it through the local riding association and then the provincial level, I will be able to present it as a policy change at the national party convention. If others are able to do the same in the Liberal and NDP parties, it becomes a wholly bi-partisan issue and budget increases are assured.
So my intent, now that I am a member on the local board, is to present military-related policy changes, including a statute that commits the party to the NATO minimum 2% spending limit. If I can get it through the local riding association and then the provincial level, I will be able to present it as a policy change at the national party convention. If others are able to do the same in the Liberal and NDP parties, it becomes a wholly bi-partisan issue and budget increases are assured.
This could work with the Conservatives, and might work with the Liberals, but will never work with the NDP.
They've been against NATO, defence spending and anything slightly war-related since their inception - and it's only going to get worse if they adopt the Leap Manifesto, which specifically calls for cutting defence spending to fund their social and green policies:
https://leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-manifesto/
ShepherdsDog @ Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:19 am
Dippers.....reinforcing Einstein's statement on the limits of genius and stupidity.
Thanos @ Mon Apr 03, 2017 9:09 am
The Dippers are more honest about what they'd do though. What are the other two parties main accomplishments since 2001 been? Replacing the Iltis with some second-hand Humvees? Getting some surplus Leo 2's off the Dutch for relatively cheap? Doubling-down on how great that sack of crap F-35 is? Almost 25 years since Mulroney left and there's still no replacement for the goddamn SeaKings, something that should have taken no more than a single year to do if those dickwads in DOD procurement hadn't managed to make the needed helicopters the most expensive ones flying anywhere thanks to their insistence on Canadian kit. The NDP and their juvenile insistence in playing some kind of teen-age pacifist role is in reality the least thing that might affect the Forces, compared to the damage that's regularly done by Tories and Liberal with their repetitive cycle of promises then reneging on those promises as fast as they can.