🇨🇦 Mark Norman, Vice Admiral (Ret’d)

@Arturmaks That’s been the very point many have been missing!

The question was never what is the most sophisticated or “best” plane. The question is what’s the right plane for the job. The job is defending North America and intercepting long range aviation.

@Bell_Support GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER! Your cell coverage in eastern Ottawa is atrocious - better service in the deserts of the Middle East! … and while I’m at it DSL is not “fibre” no matter how you spin it!!!! How long do Canadians have to put up with you and @Rogers and your crappy service? Rant complete!!!!

@JessieTweeting Definitely makes sense to have a coherent/integrated approach to the capability. We are in a “stern chase” as we are late-adopters; lots of catching-up to do.

Sending this Hail Mary signal to @Comd_RCN_34 as you’re the only GOFO I see active on here in an engaging way and for your recent article on unmanned. Perhaps a better home is under the new Joint Force Command, but ultimately Unmanned needs a proper home & recruiting pipeline.

@JessieTweeting How do I join? Asking for a friend 😉

Canada’s military is one of the highest compensated in the world. Not even including free medical, dental, and additional pay like when teaching, or deployed. Or free education. All on top of it being a rewarding, exciting, and proud profession where you can challenge yourself.

@TheHillTimes Peter, thanks for having me on your podcast. Great discussion about an important subject. #cdnpoli

The ‘ambitious’ Defence Industrial Strategy, with Mark Norman Listen here! Hill Times: hilltimes.com/podcast/the-am… Apple: apple.co/36Xy34C Spotify: spoti.fi/3lOeth9

@Arturmaks Launch the UFOs!!! 🛸

As suspected the US Supreme Court rules that Trump’s tariffs are illegal. We’ll see if Trump complies with the order. Rule of law is at stake in the USA.

@SShepherdCDN @OttawaParamedic @OttawaHospital 👍 👍

@Comd_RCN_34 @OttawaParamedic @OttawaHospital Hope you are well now

Shout out and thanks to @OttawaParamedic service and @OttawaHospital crew at The Civic. Regrettably I collapsed during a conference earlier this week. The response by the paramedics was prompt and professional and my care at The Civic was first rate. Our first responders and health care professionals are doing an amazing job in terrible circumstances. They are working in worse conditions than I’ve seen in many other parts of the world. I feel very lucky, but we must do a better job enabling them. @fordnation

@NoahGairn @JessieTweeting Substance matters more than speed in this case. It’s taken months longer than it should have to be published so another day of waiting for good analysis will be worth it.

@JessieTweeting I dont have CBC leverage. The DND Media Team is very nice to me as well. They do a lot for me, and I respected them to much to try and be first. Mine will be the most detailed anyways, so I am happy to wait a bit longer.

Homies out here revealing like half the strategy and now I dont know if they just forgot to tell me they lifted the embargo because I got like 6000 words on this shit ready to go.

@StreetNepean @Tootall516 @CDNPolicyHawk The basic tactical premise is that while replenishing escorts are not doing their primary job and the AOR (with ships alongside) can be more vulnerable to attack.. so, “get ‘er done”!

It’s all about tactical efficiency… doing two at once is obviously twice as fast. There’s always risk… that’s why you practice. Double RAS/UNREP used to be common practice. As refuelling ships have become rare and escorts more dispersed, what used to be normal/common has become unusual. Nothing wrong with the methodology, but like anything if people aren’t experienced or paying attention… bad stuff happens… quickly!!! Thanks for asking. MN

Good thing America has so many spare destroyers and replenishment ships.

This is - IMO - a viable strategy for later this century. As we continue to develop domestic competence and capacity in shipbuilding and potentially in submarine production, we can start to consider technology insertion, design evolution, and larger fleets. First however we must walk before we can run… WRT small nuclear reactors this actually makes sense… at the risk of oversimplifying things, it’s a compact power source that can be used for many purposes. I think we should be investing in modular and portable alternative power sources (like slow-poke) with emphasis on their use in remote/northern communities and mobile platforms like ships and submarines for the batch after next… sorry for the long answer 😉

@Comd_RCN_34 Mark, i have been wondering if our SlowPoke nuclear reactor could be installed in our new submarine fleet (kss iii i hope) and if they will increase the sub fleet to 24-30 and River class to 30 ships. Perhaps UK to build 8-10 type 26 for us to speed up rebuild.

Every once in a while somebody reminds “non-believers” why SEAPOWER is so important… here’s one of those examples: open.substack.com/pub/theline/p/…

We have “lost the plot”. This problem will not solve itself. Canada needs strong, clear, and unapologetic leadership. THIS MUST STOP! nationalpost.com/opinion/opinio…

Wake up Canada! We are not immune… worse, those who want to undermine our way of life are laughing at our naivety. We have done this to ourselves! #cdnpoli nationalpost.com/opinion/ivison…

@echipiuk 😢 Will we ever stop scoring on our own net…

This is Canada in a nutshell. It gives me no pleasure to say it, but much of this country is broken. If you choose not to see that, that is your choice. The reality that key systems have failed, and we cannot keep turning a blind eye or pretending this is still the Canada of the 1970s or 1980s. Those advocating for the Alberta independence movement, meanwhile, are trying to preserve a prosperous, safe, strong, and free society, one that Canada abandoned when it chose ideology over the welfare of their own people. This was not a failure of citizens; it was a failure of leadership and governance. That failure is evident when support was taken from seniors and veterans who dedicated their lives to this country and redirected elsewhere; when the energy sector, the lifeblood of so many families and communities, was turned into a political football rather than treated as a national asset; and when governments chose to disparage, shame, intimidate, arrest, and prosecute citizens for simply questioning government decisions, treating dissent as something to be punished rather than protected, and now attempting to censor it altogether. We are also in this mess because of endless jurisdictional games, multiple governments inserting themselves into areas they have no business being in, duplicating programs, blurring accountability, and driving up costs. We pay for this inefficiency twice, sometimes three times over. In the end, it is ordinary people who bear the consequences. This is not a sustainable trajectory! We see it every day as we pay more and more for services while the quality of those services continues to decline. So let’s stop pretending we are fighting to preserve a Canada that no longer functions as advertised. Let’s face reality like adults, acknowledge the problems honestly, and get to work fixing them. The priority must be outcomes for people, not loyalty to structures that no longer deliver and partnering with those who are committed to real success is essential.

There you go… Israel 🇮🇱 gets to decide! The fact that we 🇨🇦 haven’t recognized that group officially is our failing; it’s their country so they can grant access or not. This was either an intentional stunt or really bad planning by the organizers. Either way… people need to calm down and not overreact to this… which might have been the plan from the outset

The Israeli embassy in Ottawa says a group that included six Canadian MPs was denied entry into the occupied West Bank on Tuesday because of an alleged financial link to an aid organization Israel considers a “terror entity.” thestar.com/politics/feder… 🧵

This was either a stunt or poor planning. I suspect the organizers knew exactly what they were doing. Accessing the West Bank via Jordan is both stupid and irresponsible. Israel has every right to put conditions on - and deny - entry into their territory. Don’t be sucked into a false narrative on this issue.

Today a private delegation of Canadians—which included Members of Parliament—was denied entry to the West Bank at an Israeli border crossing. Global Affairs is in contact with the delegation and we have expressed Canada’s objections regarding the mistreatment of these Canadians while attempting to cross.

@KevinVuongxMP Wake up Canada!!! #cdnpoli

“The Turtle Island Liberation Front – a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group – was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets” theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

@dannyoregan @OttawaParamedic @OttawaHospital Thanks Danny! Only a CAT 3 OPDEF now… significantly better. Was out shovelling ❄️ if that’s a measure of progress 😞

@Comd_RCN_34 @OttawaParamedic @OttawaHospital Shipmate! Hope you are on the mend!

@acoyne If Putin likes it, that says it all. 😞