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Quest and her West Coast counterpart Endeavour were operated by the CFAV, with the research/hydrographic work being carried out by civilian personnel from D.R.C. and H.S.O., as required.

Writing defense with an s makes perfect sense for Bombardier because it is the only spelling of the word in French, yet works in English too.

I haven't seen the actual crown (if it is true there is one in the Senate hallway), but from the drawing, I took it that the "snowflake" at the top actually is shaped like the background "snowflake" of the Order of Canada medal.

Until the early 90's. But it wasn't a "Navy" requirement. It was a NATO commitment during the Cold War: Canada undertook to maintain and provide four escort groups, and each escort group - at strength - needed six escorts, thus a total of 24. That was even then just a paper exercice for the...

You must ahve heard of public office holders that wear "many hats" when they fulfill mutiple functions under different enabling statutes. They can make a decision wearing one hat, then turn and make the concurrent decison related to an issue required when wearing a different hat. The Crown is...

What are the Aurora's carrying then?

I think you mean P-8A because the P-9 was a McDonnel Douglas proposal for an ASW plane in the late 1980's. As for Bombardier, they are now down to making only their business jets. I just can't see them being able to turn one of their larger Global Express into an efficeint long range ASW plane...

I have no prblem with you blaming PROTECTEUR's situation on the way we do things these days. But KOOTENAY's explosion had nothing to do with the way we do things today. At that time the maintenance of ships was taken seriously and properly done, not to mention we had stable crews and...

You wont get too many people saying otherwise, Kevin. But at the time of the decision/competition, the F-15 was a lot (really a lot) more expensive than the Hornet and had fewer "Canadian" benefits attached to it. The real competition, because of price point, was between the Hornet and F-16...

Wether a drunken party is onboard or ashore, stupidity can (and will, some would say) occur. It's the drunken party part that matters, not the location. Anyone wants to argue that there have never been drunken parties at Army or Air Force Officers messes? The reality is that a ship, to sailors...

That's not the point, BD. There are also 24 CANDU reactors in Canada (including five decommissioned), but all were built before the "China Syndrome*" anti-nukes lobby made it impossible to build anything nuclear in Canada. My point is, if the GoC is willing to ignore this lobby, then go for full...

The distinction is irrelevant. The Slow Poke still has the word "nuclear" attached to it and the anti-nuclear crowd is still going to go bat crazy. If you are going to go nuclear regardless of that crowd, then go the whole way with proper nuke boats.

It's not how old you are ... It's how much you spend on maintenace, upkeep and modernization. Works for the human body too. ;)

Look what happened to the last Admiral who tried that. The Emperor may have no clothes, but he likes to smash down underlings that make him look bad, regardless of how much it costs the taxpayer in the end.

Aren't we all panicking a bit here? The damn strike is only a day old (two with today). And it's not like PSAC is known as a big "constantly striking union". Let's look at some facts here: They are not fighting for the "next" collective agreement. They are fighting for the one covering the...

The leader of the oposition, like every other MP's on that sole basis, is not repeat not part of the Governement. That is why legislatures around the Western world have developped separate security measures to vet the members of the legislatures who will oversee any of the security apparatus...

Not quite, while Natural Ressources is a Provincial power it is limited by any First Nation constitutionally protected right under section 35 of he Constitutional Act, 1982.

I thought it was called infantry after they merged it with the Trench digger trade ???

Do the math, Dana. 1600 NM in 21 days means traveling at 3 Kts - that is basically just a little better than 5 Km/h. I've been known to walk faster than that when I am in a hurry. And that is the real problem with AIP: they don't have any more "high power" than classic Diesel Electric boats...