james t kirk

According to the boys in the military, they don't want dessert uniforms. I saw it on the news that they like their green uniforms because it distinguishes them from the Americans. The locals also know that they are Canadians and tend not to shoot as much as them as they would if they thought they were americans.



We need all 28 helicopters absolutely, and they should buy the best ones available period. Under Chretien, they were told to buy the cheapest ones that would get the job done. Supposedly things have recently changed under Martin for them to buy the best ones on the market.

We could also use probably 10 or so transport planes. They currently have three (3) hurcules planes that are a complete joke since usually they aren't even in working order.

Chretien spent 100 million on two bombardier jets for his own use. That money could have been better spent on transport planes and chretien could have taken air canada for christ's sake.



I don't know if he is putting more money in or not. I think he intends to, but i don't think he has made any promises.

Don't forget, he was the finance minister under chretien who cut the shit out of their budget in the first place. Maybe Chretien was ordering him to do it, i don't know. Martin went to DND headquarters last week to deliver a speech to the military boys. Chretien never set foot in that buiding in the entire 10 years he was prime minister and Martin was in there the first week he was on the job. That's promising.

Our military needs it's budget to be doubled.

The americans spend 350 some odd billion on their annual military budget (absurdly high). Since our population is roughly a tenth, we should be spending in the order of 20 billion, to maybe 25 billion. Currently, i think the canadian military budget is around 10 billion or so. Shameful.

Here's a very interesting link with some pretty graphs

http://www.ploughshares.ca/CONTENT/W...PERS/wp031.pdf