Philippe Lagassé
@plagasse.bsky.social
Academic working on defence policy/procurement and executive power in Westminster states. I'm aware of the typos.
A few thoughts shared with Murray Brewster and the CBC about GlobalEye, military requirements, operational risks, and the right of political leaders to make choices. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
GlobalEye gamble: Ottawa chose surveillance plane without knowing it met military needs | CBC News
Ottawa moved to acquire six GlobalEye surveillance aircraft without assurances they met military requirements — requirements not shared with competing manufacturers. Subsequent assessments identified ...
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Banning Canadian whey is gonna piss off the Rogan set.
You can have all the rules, laws and written constitutions you like. If nobody is brave enough to enforce them, and people with power actively aid, or passively stand by while their country slides into authoritarianism, the rules aren't the problem www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Our unwritten constitution leaves us vulnerable to a future authoritarian government
The greatest chronicler of the British state, Lord Hennessy, warns of the need to bolster constitutional defences against a future authoritarian go...
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Sent off a 180,000 word book manuscript for peer review today, titled "Canada's Unwritten Constitution: Political Foundations and the Limits of Law" Was great writing this with @plagasse.bsky.social. (Might be the best scholarly work I've ever produced, but we'll see what the peer reviewers say!)
Props to Irvin Studin, who noted in 2020 that the CUSMA provisions granting the US control over Cdn trade agreements with other states was making us a vassal state. www.cigionline.org/articles/tow...
Toward a Term-setting Future: Five Moves to Devassalize Canada
Any discussion of post-pandemic reform in Canada’s security and intelligence (S&I;) complex — and in this I include public health emergencies — necessarily operates within the confines of the very tig...
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"The lesson that U.S. rivals are likely to take from the war is that the brilliance of the American military is largely irrelevant."
Kori Schake@kschake.bsky.social · last mo."Far from discovering a new way of war, Trump has merely discovered new ways to lose.” My assessment of the Iran war in @foreignaffairs.com; gift link here www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The decision to set up Canada's capital in Ottawa has proved prescient. Would be invaders will either face mountains of snow, rivers of slush, smoke filled air, monsoon rains, or tornadoes. Really the only window for plausible attack is October.
If you are interested in learning more about Canadian National Security but don't know where to start, I'll be teaching the Practical Certificate in National Security with @npsia-ptd.bsky.social this August 19-20 (online!) carleton.ca/npsia-ptd/ca...
Canadian National Security - NPSIA-PT&D
The Practical Certificate in Canadian National Security National security is the condition achieved when a country is able to protect its social, economic
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How long will Canada resist renaming the Privy Council Office as the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet?
Major machinery of govt changes including - finally! - the creation of an Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet Long overdue and excellent news that the Burnham govt has grasped this nettle questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
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Bombardier doesn’t want to assemble Gripens. www.lapresse.ca/affaires/chr...
La Presse à Farnborough | Bombardier n’a pas d’intérêt à assembler des chasseurs suédois
L’entreprise suédoise Saab a peut-être émis l’hypothèse que son partenaire d’affaires Bombardier pourrait assembler au Canada ses chasseurs Gripen si le gouvernement fédéral lui accordait le mandat de...
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I'm seeing similar patterns as a journal editor. The number folk who can't be bothered to check if their citations are real is stunning. It's the first thing I look at now. Also, if there's more than a couple of "it's not X, it's Y" in a manuscript, you're not editing very well.
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
With questions about the transparency of Canada's defence spending plans bubbling up, re-upping my comparison of the Canadian and British defence expenditure dilemmas. open.substack.com/pub/philippe...
Learning from Britain’s Defence Spending Resignation
Where’s Ottawa's plan to pay for 3.5%?
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Will the tortoise beat the hare, the hare beat the tortoise, or will it be split between them?
Steven Chase@stevenchase.bsky.social · 2mo agoWinner of high-stakes competition to build Canada 12 submarines to be announced Monday www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Will the tortoise beat the hare, the hare beat the tortoise, or will it be split between them?
Steven Chase@stevenchase.bsky.social · 2mo agoWinner of high-stakes competition to build Canada 12 submarines to be announced Monday www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Please read @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social over @thebulwark.com on the devastating impact of Musk's USAID cuts: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Yes, the Cuts to USAID Have Killed
Elon Musk dismisses the human toll of the Trump administration’s gutting U.S. foreign aid—but it’s real and it’s measurable.
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Downside of interview research in France: hard to get people to talk. Upside: the ones who talk are fountains of information. Also, maudit qu’il fait chaud.
Why am I skeptical Canada will spend $150 billion a year of defence? We're doing a Gofundme for our Prime Minister's residence. nationalnewswatch.com/2026/06/26/c...
PM Carney says 24 Sussex to be restored with fundraising campaign,…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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Thrilled to share my latest scholarly article, co-authored with @minhdo.bsky.social, and published in Publius: "Treaty Federalism, Legislative Reconciliation, and Informal Constitutional Change in Canada" academic.oup.com/publius/adva...
Treaty Federalism, Legislative Reconciliation, and Informal Constitutional Change in Canada
Abstract. Canada’s constitution is often viewed as a barrier to transformational political change. In the context of Indigenous-state relations, the federa
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