"He charts a progression from political influence and industrial theft to targeted scientific infiltration, often leveraging patriotic sentiment and financial inducements within the overseas Chinese diaspora."

"Historian Dennis Molinaro’s Under Assault traces how Beijing has repeatedly used Canada as a staging ground to reach its true strategic target — the United States."

I hope tomorrow is better.

"Instead, we have a rag-bag of half measures. The Liberals are squandering their political capital with almost nothing to show for it. Noisy self-congratulation is no substitute for good government."

"...federal provincial fiscal relations, and the unconditional end of the war on oil and gas, even if accompanied by rhetorical window-dressing for the regime’s climate-frenzied supporters."

"...much applauded by the Liberal media echo chamber. The government, to judge from the epochal reforms that it trumpeted for months prior to last Tuesday, has some abstract recognition of the necessity for radical change in taxing, spending,..."

"What we have been given instead is a not entirely credible promise of progress at a snail’s pace towards deficit reduction and tax rationalization, and a holy grail of a trillion dollars of investment, half from the private sector, with minimal elaboration,..."

"If the government had rushed this budget out with much less hyperbole a month after the election, it might have been a passable transitional effort if accompanied by a promise of comprehensive reform without undue delay, aimed directly at the greatest problems and opportunities facing us."

So, it sounds to me like the Carney government wants to Very Quickly get a lot of people trained up with some very basic introductory training, in specific elements of soldiering that seem to me to be most applicble to domestic security.

I think they know the wheels are about to come off the bus.

"The training focus would be on “basic skills (e.g. shoot, move, and communicate; drive a truck; fly a drone: etc.)”, Beck and Carignan wrote."

"Medical coverage would be provided for their annual military service, but that time would not count towards their pensions, the directive pointed out."

"After the initial entry into the ranks, the public servants would be required to do one week’s worth of military training each year but would not be issued uniforms."

"At this point, there are 4,384 personnel in the Supplementary Reserves, but in the case of an emergency, that would be boosted to 300,000, according to the directive from Beck and Carignan."

"The public servants would be inducted into the Supplementary Reserve, which is currently made up of inactive or retired members of the Canadian Forces who are willing to return to duty if called."
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"Feasibly, they could “sue the current fee simple owners for an order cancelling their titles and vacating their properties and, on the basis of the Cowichan decision in Richmond, they would succeed.”"