“The war in Ukraine is not a video game or a movie, it’s real life. It’s not some actor playing a character, it’s a real man or woman who is going to be killed in a horrible violent way.”

“The Royal Military College in Kingston was founded in 1874 and the Canadian Airborne Regiment in 1968. We disbanded one that was found have systemic cultural problems after just 27 years, perhaps after 148 years it’s time we do it to the other”

“Just like at the outset of every other major conflict it has ever entered, it will be woefully unprepared. So what?”

“...deep in the heart of National Defence and the dimly lit corners of the Prime Minister’s Office, hushed conversations are deciding what should be done with Major-General Dany Fortin.”

“These are the battlefields where the great veteran heroes of this war send scathing, self-righteous, opinionated salvos back and forth at one another with nearly complete anonymity.”

“As the years slipped by the other portraits changed frequently, but never hers. Queen Elizabeth II and her watchful, regal eyes never faltered.”

“The Snowbirds are, & will always be a Canadian icon, but in terms of recruiting value & relevance in a world of 5th gen fighters, Top Gun: Maverick, and Miles Teller's moustache, their best days are far behind them...”