The world is growing tired of Canada’s freeloading on defence
having been sent with them, and bill the military afterward – the response at home is mostly a yawn. Only our allies seem put out.
The document goes on to say, according to the Post, that procurement decisions are “politically motivated, constrained by limited staffing and not properly codified in budget items.” And that’s without getting into the 2010 National Shipbuilding Strategy, surely the worst managed construction project since the pyramids. The “strategy” is divided into more than half a dozen subprojects, every last one of which is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Just the frigate program alone – an order for 15 warships to replace our current fleet – is now projected to cost more than three times its original estimate , before a single ship has even been built.
This has been going on for decades, under both Conservative and Liberal governments. It never changes, because no one wants it to change – or at least, not enough people want it to change, nor do they want it to change enough, compared with the numbers of people, in politics, in the department, in the defence industries, in the regions where the ships get built , who want very passionately for everything to go on just exactly as it has before.
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