We’re really good at deferring and rebooting. It’s the buying desperately needed military hardware part where Canada comes up short
How many governments does it take to buy a fighter plane? This sounds like the start of a mediocre joke. In Canada, it’s a sincere question.
It didn’t seem to bother voters much — the Liberals won a majority. They also then spent the next 3.5 years accomplishing the square root of zero, presumably because they couldn’t quite figure out how to hold a fair and open competition where one of the primary candidates was already excluded. Almost the entire Liberal mandate has essentially been them ragging the puck, no doubt in the hopes that Canadians will forget about the promises they made back in 2015.
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about this . So I know how this goes. Readers will soon be demanding to know why Canada needs fighter jets at all, or why we don’t just go buy a fleet of drones. Well, to answer the second question first, we’re not exactly world-beaters when it comes to acquiring drones, either, and Canada’s procurement dysfunction is not limited to planes. We’re bad at it in general.
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