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They'll have 270-300 km options with both unitary and bomblets anyway, so they should be able to do some decent damage on targets of opportunity in the deep rear areas. I think Russian tactical aviation is going to go through some stuff. Probably some high level CPs / HQs as well. Unfortunately...

Thanks guys. I’ve read the book many times, and had been told in the past that it itself was intended to satirize the totalitarian sort of system he portrayed. I stand corrected.

You realize that book was a satire of fascism, right? I mean, I love the book, but it’s a cautionary tale; not one to be emulated.

They could have had it months ago plus a border bill with bipartisan support, but they pissed that away catering to their party’s extremists. They’ve realized that on substantive issues they may have more in common with, and more to gain from working with, the other party’s centrist moderates...

You’ve quoted a law; I meant can you give me an example of the sort of situation/emergency you imagine. You can’t start with the law; you need the fact set to apply the law to. No, that’s not what it means and not what we saw happen the one time it was actually invoked. The EA allows for...

Can you give me an example for context?

I expect the job of CDS sucks, has always sucked, and will always sucked. You’re the DM of a very expensive department, that does things Canadians mostly don’t like or at least don’t like to think about, and most of the time the value of your department isn’t obvious. When you ARE in the news...

It literally does exactly that if there‘a a legal separation of powers, which in Canada there is. There is no mechanism for the PM, Cabinet, a Premier, or any legislature to direct or command specific police operations. That’s a feature of the system, not a bug. So, FINTRAC doesn’t ‘sniff’ per...

All of that is correct but I don’t see how any of it falsifies any of what I’ve said, nor how any of it applies to the situation at hand. The Police Service Boards I’ve described are creations of provincial legislation governing policing, and high of course is drafted and passed by provincial...

Which is completely fair. However the EA didn’t have anything to do with creating lawful authority for police to act in the public order capacity to clear the blockade of downtown. All the necessary law for that aspect existed already. The EA would come into discussion here if, say, outside of...

I’ve heard BC lower mainland is big on that? Trying to encourage redevelopment and vertical infill?

There might be legal limits… Are they enforced? Or even enforceable? Push the four extra people out of one unit, they’ll quickly flow into another. There’s a whole underground economy (literally, I guess, in the case of basement suites) of off the books housing. People need a roof.

How and where are you getting “insurrection” in any of this? That’s literally a violent existential threat to the continuity and lawful authority of the state entirely. No they don’t. There’s a strongly firewalled operational independence of police, for a lot of good reasons. If you want to...

So basically the feds should ‘do something’ but you have nothing specific or workable to propose. None of the rest of your reply has anything to do with the right now public order and policing issues, so there’s nowhere for me to go with any of that.

Not sure what you’re proposing. Are you suggesting the feds unilaterally send the RCMP into downtown Ottawa and Toronto and… I’m not sure what exactly? Any national security threats arising out of this are squarely RCMP responsibility, but the public order and incitement of hatred aspects are...

So for politicians to be scumbags it’s necessary for them to be charged? Gonzales spoke truth, and Gaetz won’t lift a finger other than to cry and rant a bit. What you won’t see is any sort of defamation action that would put Gaetz under the microscope of discovery.

Police are generally accountable, specifically, to their Police Service Boards for the municipality. Board can set objectives and strategic direction, but nobody external dictates operational matters. Historically we’re considered that arms-reach balance very important to have. Any change to...

I actually wasn’t going there- I don’t think that’s even conceivably in play for any of these ‘last a couple hours’ protests where everyone then goes home.

An overt, public, and legislatively enabled offer of government to government funding assistance should the receiving government choose to act lawfully, within its established regulatory authority, to advance a policy option the higher level of government wishes to incentivize? If he called...

Well, like I said, it’s tricky. Do you want the PM / government in power to specifically direct certain law enforcement action? Because that would be a massive upheaval in how our executive branch of government interacts with police. In other contexts, that would have many members of this page...