Canada military spends billions developing invisible snowmobiles

That story you saw at the CBC about stealth snowmobiles is just the tip of the iceberg.

The truth of the matter is that the "Loki" program has cost billions and has had great success in developing stealth snowmobile technology.

Falling Downs operatives recently visited the top-secret invisible snowmobile test site outside Watdaphuk on Baffin Island, code named "Loki-no-see" and they report that invisible snowmobiles are everywhere.

Colonel Mac Johnson, head of the secret Canadian Forces base at Watdaphuk, says the funding for the top-secret stealth snowmobile development program has come through John Baird's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and Gay Rights and Arctic Sovereignty and Religious Freedom.

Apparently Baird has taken Vladimir Putin's assault on gay rights personally, and is determined to establish the Arctic as a queer-friendly zone of Canadian influence.

Informed observers will of course recognize that Putin has been simultaneously waging war both on gays in Russia and Canada's claims to sovereignty in the Arctic, so the Loki-no-see initiative cuts across all the most important currents in Canadian foreign policy, and proves definitively once and for all that as Canadians, we punch well above our weight and talk even bigger.

Snowden v. gay rights in Russia

We knew all along that it was only a matter of time before CIA shills would condemn Edward Snowden for having accepted Russia's offer of asylum.

We at the Falling Downs think tank are all aboard for gay rights and same-sex marriage etc.

We are disturbed by recent anti-queer legislation in Russia.

But if we are forced to choose between Edward Snowden finding sanctuary and gay Russians having a pride parade, well, it's a no-brainer.

"Gay" has been co-opted through and through in the West, to the point where the CIA empowers a gay "Employee Resource Group" to make sure that gay CIA staffers are not discriminated against.

However laudable that may be, some things are more important than "gay rights."

John Baird laments his lack of influence on the world stage

Rule number one in "wielding influence" is that you need to have some before you can wield it.

Baird is baffled by his failure to quash a Russian law that is a step backwards for gay rights in Russia, and came out with the kind of bombastic attack he has become famous for.

According to Baird, he or his department held no less than eight meetings with their Russian counterparts since January trying to derail the proposed law, to no avail.

In the course of holding all those meetings, Baird found time to visit some of Canada's staunchest allies in the Gulf region. There is no record of Baird having used his influence to sway the anti-democratic leaders he visited in Bahrain, Qatar, or UAE away from the draconian anti-gay legislation in place in those countries, nor did he make any statements "blasting" our allies for their short-comings in the area of human rights.

The Russians may have gotten the impression they were dealing with a buffoon and a hypocrite.