Gradually, then suddenly: Canada’s top general is shutting down a key operation keeping avalanches under control along the Trans-Canada Highway in the Rocky Mountains because of “significant resource pressures,” according to a letter obtained by the Ottawa Citizen.
“However, the CAF continues to face significant resource pressures while the global geopolitical situation continues to rapidly evolve. Regrettably, the situation has not improved while the demands on our resources have continued to increase despite recent investments.”
Translated: Now is not the time to tie up our single west coast cannon.
Recent ‘investments’? I read that some of the latest recruiting efforts had less than stellar results. Let’s launch a multi million dollar study to find out why.
There’s no business case for LNG or avalanche control.
“The Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney is pouring billions of dollars into the Canadian Forces.”
Change that to “stealing” instead of “pouring” and you will have a better understanding why Canadian Forces can’t manage 1000 rounds of obsolete 105mm and a couple of obsolete howitzers for avalanche control. Not even as a training exercise.
Looking deeper, I wonder if it’s more that they can’t trust their new “non-citizen volunteers” with live ammo. Somebody might have an aloha snackbar moment, know what I mean?
Let’s withhold some of the aid to Ukraine to ‘aid Canada’. I know, totally radical thinking!
“Deploy? We can’t deploy! We’re holding the mountains down!”
Avalanche control is no longer needed … now that runaway global warming has all but eliminated snowfall in the Rockies. You all need a reminder that we’ve passed a “tipping point” numerous times.
Is this the same “top general” who broke down apologizing for supposed sexism and racism in the CAF?
We all know what her priorities are.
It is far more important to repeat the Carney narrative that the world is an increasingly scary place than to actually do something that might help Canadians.
Geopolitical blah blah.
Translation….we hate Trump and want you all to think we are in an emergency situation, so that you accept a crappy country, and whatever Dear Leader’s latest dictat is.
Let’s drop enough of the top brass to fund this! A win-win in my mind!
Do we really want the foreign born and the degenerates in charge of large calibre weapons in close proximity to civilians?
Wait, we have large calibre weapons? Weren’t they all sent to Ukraine (both of them)?
“Do we really want the foreign born and the degenerates in charge of large calibre weapons…?”
This is what I was wondering. Are there enough reliable non-coms left in the artillery to make sure the plugs don’t go all aloha snackbar with the live ammo?
I’m starting to be pretty happy the Canadian forces is a tiny shadow of its former self.
I’ve been to BC. A little bit of shelling would improve things.
L – 40 trains and 4,000 vehicles including tractor trailers per day…and the estimated economic cost of closed road/rail due to avalanches is $3 million/hour. No breakdown of how much of that economic cost is due to the delay in drug cartels getting their supply chain interrupted. Given the feds get a cut of the money laundering…
No mention of estimated number of lives lost due to avalanches, because… (fill in the blank, blankety blank).
If the British Columbia government were to announce a referendum on Independence for the province in the morning. The C.A.F. Avalanche program would be reinstated and expanded by that afternoon.
Though given P.M. Carnage’s announced new formal “strategic partnership” with China. Would not the P.L.A. offer to do it, as part of a re-in statement of being trained in winter warfare on Canada, as they were under Trudeau. …err I meant to write in Canada.
The military is paid a rate while in the barracks, and they’re paid a rate while working in the field, is the difference measured in $millions?
The military is fed while in the barracks, whether they are training or not, and they’re fed while working in the field. Is this difference measured in $millions?
Is the added diesel cost to access where the mountains are, in the $millions?
is the cost of artillary training near the barracks so much less than the cost of aiming at snow on a mountain?
I think the federal gov’t is saying, they’ve stolen or misappropriated so much money, that they’ve left none for anyone, and with the recent decision to prohibit free speech in parliament, I suppose we have nobody to ask.
Well done tier 2 Canada. lol… Getting the gov’t you deserve.
They have 15,000 (1 out of 5) soldiers in offices in Ottawa. If we can’t afford a couple dozen soldiers with a couple guns getting excellent firing experience, something is severely wrong, but then we knew that.
The Chair Force in Ottawa has its priorities.
How dare you!
If the Rogers Pass were in Quebec, Carney would be using equalization money from Alberta and BC to pay for installation of heating cables on the mountains above the highway.
Shooting guns and stuff is so awful and dirty, we don’t want our best and brightest young soldiers to be exposed to such things. They need to be getting PowerPoints on Gender Analysis in Mission Planning and Tampon Logistics in Urban Barracks.
RNrn
Obviously, our betters have some good reasons why this is happening. This is some smart brain thinking, well above the cognition level of you mud encrusted peasants. Besides, everyone knows that the natural lines of communication in Canada are North – South. The only people using this road are settler colonialists off busy exploiting the working class and Our Most Vulnerable Members of Society. Scum. Anyway, if the scum are so determined to get from needle exchange Vancouver to needle exchange Calgary, they can take some other route. Sorry for the inconvenience, fascists. This is not the prologue of an evil scheme masterminded by a Bond villain. No way.
If the Great Spirit had meant there to be traffic over the Great Divide, he’d have made different arrangements with the Blackfoot, now wouldn’t he? Q.E.D. (That’s an academic expression that means, ‘ask someone with an education degree’.)
The Canadian Army ran out of rainbow-coloured artillery shells.
avalanche? yo, Liberals, the highway avalanche is going to be DWARFED by the ‘avalanche’ of
insurmount[ain]able DEBT DEBT DEBT DEBT. and lets call it what it is, the TURDEAU debt.
and aim all the finger pointing at the VOTERS who arranged this for the past 11 years.
good stuff elbozos.
Emergency preparedness and response is a provincial responsibility. How long has B.C. been ignoring this problem that is their responsibility? The BC Wildfire Service alone has 40 aircraft.
Rogers Pass is in a National Park.
Federal responsibility.
Perhaps all of the ordnance has gone to Ukraine.
To an imperial Ottawa government these are far off ‘western’ problems.
I guess i will take Interstate 90 to the coast and back. Bye bye Trans Canada HWY (probably)
“Carignan wrote in her letter to Hallman that “the availability of modern technologies and alternative capabilities presents options for successful transition to civilian methods.””
The mind boggles..
Screaming sacks of mostly water,dropped from helicopters?
Kamakazi drones?
Chanting Shamen?
So our military no longer uses artillery and no longer needs practise?
We have no time Xed shells?
Or is the master plan to isolate BC every spring?
Gotta keep them Native Lands clear.
Maybe the sight of our troops doing something real and useful is too much for any bureaucrat to bear?
Another boon to the cause of Western Independence.