I actually tend to agree with this. Russia can barely invade a country it shares a flat land border with. Imagine them using their mostly non-existent navy to try and secure Baffin island with a bunch of drunk conscripts who now have to camp out in the fucking Arctic while being bombed.
I mean, maybe that's a good thing for any future resistance movement? The powers that be using highly flammable / explosive, unreliable, piece of shit glued together trucks that can't handle a carwash.
I can assure you it makes a fuck tonne of money that is squandered on process. I've worked for the feds and I always hear the "government efficiency" jokes from my coworkers. I always make a point to tell them how much faster the government processes were at finalizing similar initatives compared to anything I've seen in industry. They usually don't believe me but it's true. This is at 1 engineering firm, 1 survey firm and various midstream / upstream operators. Calgary thinks its gods gift to productivity but they exist in a bubble when compared to the competitive nature of Ontario firms for other induatries, especially when you compare technology utilization.
We couldn't even vote to do away with daylight savings time...NO ONE WANTS DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BUT ALBERTANS VOTES TO KEEP IT. Zero faith in Albertans to make the right call on this.
I wish we would nationalize all resource extraction nationwide. Fuck private companies owning this shit. I'm Albertan and love watching my coworkers squirm when I bring up this topic.
Critical infrastructure that could easily sabotaged by Canadian guerilla forces, pipelines, waterlines, dams, bridges, electrical infrastructure,etc. We look like you, sound like you and we can get to you.
This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I'm also old. Goddamnit.