I've been out of TAVA for a long time, but a friend found this on a site called "UFO Roundup." It quotes the Toronto Globe and Mail concerning the y2k problem. Here's the part I thought would interest TAVA shareholders. (The link is at the bottom, but I'm pasting the whole y2k part here.)
CANADA PLANS MILITARY RESPONSE TO Y2K CRISIS
Canadian Armed Forces have begun contingency plans to deal with the Year 2000 computer crisis, including the call-up of 60,000 reserve troops, the biggest peacetime deployment ever.
According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, "The Army is studying everything from the number of flashlights and batteries it will need if power is cut for weeks to which military air-traffic-control field equipment should be set up at civilian airports. Logistics officers are plotting where to position supplies, fuel, tents, cots" and other equipment.
All formations have been told that the "planning for the Year 2000 computer crisis is their highest priority and will be the focus of all training from January (1999) on."
Last September, Ottawa sent a 24-page order to all Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) commanders, regional headquarters and reserve units. The
order stated, "There is potential for disruption of major infrastructure systems...that may require Canadian Forces support to civil authorities."
Navy captains were advised that their frigates may be docked in large
seaports "to provide garrisons, power plants, field hospitals and soup
kitchens."
In the October 1998 issue of Maple Leaf, Lt. Gen. Roy Crabbe, recently
retired deputy chief of defence, wrote, "As far as Christmas (1999) goes, I don't think you can deploy 60,000 troops away from their homes at Christmas, especially from a morale point of view. I'm not sure you can say the same for New Year's Eve."
The code name for the deployment is Operation Abacus, with military
activities planned for Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. (See the Toronto Globe and Mail for October 27, 1998, "Army fears civil chaos from Millenium Bug," by Jeff Sallot and John Saunders.)
(Editor's Comment: All rail transportation is now run by computers, so
defective Y2K chips could disrupt delivery of food supplies. In cities
reasonably close to food-producing areas, such as San Francisco,
Milwaukee, Kansas City and Minneapolis, that's not a big problem. But in cities far away from farm districts, where there is only a seven-day supply of food, things could get really hairy. That would include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Boston. In South America, disruption of food deliveries could cause chaos in major metropolitan areas such as Caracas, Bogota, Lima, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile.)
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