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Originally posted by OFKU0
I think new helicopters are a good start. Will these be the same helicopters that the Mulroney government promised to buy only to have the Chretien government cancel the project costing 100's of millions of dollars.
We may have to pay double with all the costs factored in as to what they are worth but then our soldiers don't have to worry so much as to if they will die each time it lifts off with like that of the Sea Kings .
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We also need some new fighter planes. We haven't bought any fighter planes since Trudeau was in office in the early 80's. The F-18's we do have apparently have the computer systems equivalent to a commadore Vic 20 (remember those).
We need just about everything, not the least of which is more men and women. And they could probably use a decent raise too.
LD is right, it is good that Chretien is gone. I think Chretien had a real hate on for anything to do with the military. I thought it was totally hypocritical of him to attend the memorial service for the guys killed in Afghanistan by the land mine given that they were using such inferior equipment.
Economically, Canada did very well under Chretien, but ironically, this is all due to Paul Martin who was the then finance minister extraordinaire.
I look forward to seeing what Paul Martin can do. I like the way he speaks, and I like the things he has done so far in his first week in office.
Now he has to get rid of a pile of pork that Chretien was responsible for. He, Martin started by getting rid of those idiots who spent 100 million a year on advertising / stealing in Quebec.
The good thing about Martin is that he knows where the waste is and I like his new finance minister - Goodale. Fiscally careful, doesn't believe in deficit spending. Thank God.