Christian (Canadian) Conservative, Andrew Prescott, has been accused of being the flesh and blood of the aliases Pierre Poutine, Pierre Jones, by researcher Brian-Michel LaRue. LaRue gives his reasoning in the first of a series of posts started Saturday, and promises the evidence he’s gathered to back the accusation will
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Leftist Jab: Take The "Guess The Auditor General Report" Quiz: Chinook Helicopter or F-35?
Peter MacKay: Why does Rona get everything? Rona, Rona, Rona! Between the complete ignorance of the desolate living conditions found in the First Nation reserve of Attawapiskat, the suspected widespread election fraud and the misleading of Canadians of the estimated costs of the F-35 fighter jets to the tune of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The F-35 Is About More Than Cost
In fact the burgeoning cost of Lockheed Martin’s light bomber may be the least of our problems. To begin, what do you do with 65-light bombers in a country the size of Canada? You’ll always have a good number of them in reserve so you can make the fleet last.
Continue readingImpolitical: Accountability!
On this Easter weekend, let us reflect, yes. In the 2012 version of this video, let us ask: How is it that a government could fail to disclose to Parliament $10 billion in costs on a major purchase they were planning to make? (h/t)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls – Globe & Mail Should Blush
There are days I worry that the Globe and Mail is unfit for birds to poop on it. If their endorsement of the Harper Conservatives prior to last year’s electoral fraud riddled election wasn’t enough of a credibility hit, there’s their more recently published Ibbitson column claiming Harpercons wouldn’t openly
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The "F-35 Killer" Is Already Airborne
Those who are pushing the F-35 down Canada’s throat will take any chance to extol its unproven, awesome technical advantages, particularly its stealth technology. The idea is the enemy cannot hit what it cannot see. The invisible bomber gets into enemy airspace, bombs its target and gets out completely undetected.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany…
Jason Kenney edition. Is Jason Kenney Canada’s Joseph McCarthy? I think so… OTTAWA — New Democratic Party MP Don Davies says it never occurred to him when he innocuously snapped a photo at an anti-racism march in Vancouver last month that he would suddenly become the latest target in an
Continue readingImpolitical: Auditor General #F35 fallout
Terry Milewski’s report on yesterday’s remarks by the Auditor General and the reactions those remarks set off, above. It is helpful to see whose eyes are grave, whose eyes are dead and whose eyes are lit up. More on the AG’s remarks and DND apparently getting restless at holding the
Continue readingThe Straight pummels Globe & Mail and other ‘important newspapers’ for lack of F-35 coverage
Charlie Smith asks the “The $10-billion question: why isn’t the F-35 scandal on the front page of “important” newspapers?” Good question. Well, we know about the Globe & Mail. Loved Bush, adored the Iraq invasion and endorsed Harper. But the rest of the media? So where did the Globe and Mail
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: An American Takes on Harper’s F-35 Snake Oil
Here’s another repost, this from April, 2011, wherein an American expert calls out Harper on his endless F-35 lies. From Embassy, a preview of remarks to be made tomorrow in Washington by Winslow Wheeler of the Center for Defense Information about Canada’s unhinged decision to purchase the F-35 Joint Strike
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35 – Kissing America’s Arse Takes Wings
I’m reposting this piece from 12 December, 2010. It adds some useful context to the depths of Harper’s perversion of our federal government and its insitutions. What’s not to like about the F-35? Just about everything. That includes how Harper & Company, aided and abetted by a military willing to
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: The F-35 Boondoggle
I know we’ve been over this ground before, but remind me again… why does Canada even need this heinously expensive new class of fighter jet at all? What possible military threat are we defending ourselves from? Seriously. What is the point? Aside from the absurdity of ploughing something like $30
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The F-35 Fiasco. Time For an Intervention?
It took long enough but our media are finally coming to realize that the Harper regime is no longer fit to govern. Andrew Coyne writes of a “government in collapse.” Brian Stewart laments a government bereft of any shred of integrity, purposefully and persistently lying to Parliament and the Canadian
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: CBC’s Brian Stewart Casts Bones & Reads Entrails – Stephen Harper’s Bones and Peter MacKay’s Entrails
It seems Brian Stewart has been a CBC defence wonk since the days of muzzle loaders and black powder. That makes his take on the F-35 fiasco all the more notable. “The who-knew-what about the real costs of the F-35 fighter jet Canada wants to purchase is worrisome enough. But
Continue readingImpolitical: Chart of the day
And maybe of the year (click to enlarge): (Source) 2.76 We also have significant concerns about the completeness of cost information provided to parliamentarians. In March 2011, National Defence responded publicly to the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s report. This response did not include estimated operating, personnel, or ongoing training costs (Exhibit
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Steve Harper’s "Culture of Entitlement"
Steve Harper, perhaps unwittingly, set out to be the Defence department’s butt boy and today he finds himself with a blinding hangover, lying in an alley in a pool of his own puke, surrounded by empty bottles and with his pants curiously down around his ankles. The Auditor General, Michael
Continue readingImpolitical: Harper’s latest F-35 big 180
Harper yesterday: While the government isn’t giving any guarantees Canada will buy the F-35, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the country will remain involved in the stealth fighter project to ensure Canadian companies can continue participating. “We have received literally hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for the Canadian
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Our Buggy Stealth Buggy
Okay, the F-35 isn’t a buggy, it’s a bomb truck – a very buggy flying bomb truck. The F-35 has had more than its share of lurches, stumbles and controversy along its path to become the most overpriced, overdue and underperforming fighter aircraft in history. Originally intended to be operational
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Australia Steps Back from F-35 Buy
Another day, another F-35 fiasco. This time it’s Australia that’s getting cold, make that colder, feet on the overdue, over priced, under performer. The Canberra Times reports that Australia’s defence minister has directed a delay in orders for Australia’s second batch of 58 F-35s. Lockheed Martin vice-president Tom Burbage told
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why No Fighter Competition for Canada?
Critics for the F-35 routinely slam the Harper government for single-sourcing the choice for Canada’s next fighter aircraft. They argue there should have been an open competition to assess all the options including the French Rafale, the Eurofighter Typhoon, the SAAB Griffen among others. What no one has looked into
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