Monkeymaster;
Good morning to you sir, I hope the day out east in Iowa is looking as it should so far and you're well.

Regarding our current tank situation, I cannot recall how we ended up with German tanks, but we did, it was awhile ago and no it doesn't appear that a maintenance budget much less eventual replacement was thought out.

If that's not enough spending Canadian taxpayer money that we don't have, earlier this year our Minister of Defense announced we're buying an air defense system from a US supplier and sending it to the Ukraine. While we could discuss whether or not that's the right and proper thing to do, we should first note that Canada does not currently have that capability ourselves.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department...-defence-system-donation-to-ukraine.html

There are definitely some who are attempting to turn the course of the country back at least to where the debt will be paid off in our grandchildren's lives, hopefully enough of us can see the benefit and get it done.

We'll see.

All the best to you in spite of the interesting waters we're attempting to navigate.

Dwayne

The most important stuff in life isn't "stuff"