Canadair

backpacking.

So he flies one of those Canadair that can plane on water because he's also a pilot.

And they go backpacking, so they have all their gears and then they're just enjoying the peace and tranquility of nature.

Beautiful landscape, amazing.

Uh, his government, though, did privatize several Crown assets.

Yeah, he doesn't probably, in, in toll, the CN Rail, and Petro-Canada, and Canadair, and Telesat, all sorts of things that were, at the time, a de Havilland Aero- I mean, things that were very close to people's hearts.

And so I do wonder, you know, how, how you feel, given that outside experience, how you feel about this pitch from the current prime minister.

The, based on what we know, is it a good idea?

They've got a Swissair ambulance.

I think that was based off the CRJ family or, or some sort of Canadair aircraft.

It is a really great museum.

But you know what would make it even greater, Ian?

And I, and I flashed back on my time in the government, and I went and looked it up, and it's still true.

Canadair, uh, Bombardier, uh, makes jets that have more US content in them than Gulfstream jets, which are made in South Carolina.

The, the Canadair Bombardier has a headquarters office in Wichita, Kansas.

The Ca- Bombardier jets often use GE engines, whereas Gulfstream jets often use Rolls-Royce engines.

The reality is that Donald Trump does not understand trade.

That's what they say.

All right, General Aviation Singles and Twins, Cessnas and Pipers, the Square Engine Metroliner you flew, EMB 120 Brasilia, Canadair CRJ200, the Boeing 7-2 Engineer, right seat of the 7-2, 737-200, 737-800, 7576, 76400, and 320 series, 1920-21.

One wife, two kids, One grandkid.

All correct.

Everyone else relies on helicopters with buckets or smaller single-engine planes.

So when a fire gets big enough that you need a Beriev or a Canadair dropping 30,000 liters per pass, you're calling abroad no matter how good your domestic fire service is.

Greece has a large Canadair fleet, and they still request assistance almost every bad fire season because the demand outstrips even their capacity.

So the request

isn't an admission of failure.

There's been talk of a pre-positioned regional firefighting fleet, a standing multinational squadron of large air tankers based in Cyprus or Crete that would be available to all participating countries.

It hasn't happened yet, mostly because of cost.

A single Canadair costs about $35 million, and a standing fleet of six would need annual operating budgets in the tens of millions.