The F-35 costs were (more than) double what MacKay and the Conservatives told the public. The books used to track expenses for the jets were doubled. The books for Fantino’s CPC Vaughn campaign are alleged to have been doubled. Bruce Carson, Harper’s trusted PMO adviser, was a two time convict.
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The Disaffected Lib: F-35 Tale of the Tape
How does the F-35 stack up against the competition today? That depends on who you ask and how badly they want to buy/sell it. First off, let’s leave the stealth business out of this. Like most emerging technologies, it’s brittle and subject to being overcome or otherwise rendered obsolete. One
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Do We Buy After the F-35?
I’m convinced that, badly as the air force boys want the F-35, even if they got it they would soon be back, begging bowl in hand. Everyone, especially those air force guys boosting the F-35 option at the moment, knows this airplane is “tits on a boar hog” useless for
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This is not the sexy issue of the day but it’s a biggie. The F-35 scandal saw new key information disclosed on what the Prime Minister and cabinet knew about the price of the deal and when they knew it. You’d never know that of course from the Prime Ministerial
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Auditor General – Tories Ducking True F-35 Costs
You can never go far wrong by underestimating the integrity of the Harper regime. They seem to lie when it would be easier to tell the truth and what they can’t lie about they simply omit or hide. If you’ve ever lived in a really old house you’ve probably heard
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35, the Wrong Plane at the Wrong Time
A retired RCAF Colonel who served as fleet manager of our CF-18s has said the obvious – the F-35 has no place in the defence of Canada. Retired colonel Paul Maillet, an aerospace engineer and former CF-18 fleet manager, said the F-35 does not meet the needs of the government’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why Does Canada Need a Hyper-Expensive Light Bomber?
As the F-35 fighter-bomber debate returns to the House of Commons today the opposition parties, forever chasing the shiny thing, will be all over the government about costs and who knew what and when. What if they’re chasing a false scent? What if they’re not asking the questions that really
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Fifty Billion Dollars on a Handful of Dodgy Fighters and My Coast, the One Facing China Remains Undefended.
Stephen Harper finds blowing craters in distant countries infinitely preferable to actually defending Canada, or at least my part of it. That Canada’s west coast remains undefended was embarrassingly demonstrated when a Korean Airlines flight was the subject of a bomb threat as it cruised near the Queen Charlotte Islands
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Vigilantes and Mercenaries: The Harper Government and the Abdication of Responsibility
With the revelation that Minister Peter MacKay failed to ask many of the obvious/necessary questions when working on the F-35 procurement, the subject of basic ministerial/government responsibility has been weighing heavily on my mind as of late. When I listen to/discuss politics with my friends who are more libertarian-leaning conservatives,
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservatives Lied About F-35 Contract
Peter MacKay lied. In 2010 Defense Minister Peter MacKay said many times that the F-35 was selected in an open, competitive, and transparent process, this is contradicted be the Auditor General Michael Ferguson who has said there was no competition, that the costly $25 billion, and growing, contract was indeed
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: What DOES Foreign Inducement Look Like Anyway?
It apparently doesn’t look like an American on a phone reading a script that’s supposed to convince Canadians to vote for a Conservative MP. Because there is a photo of that happening last election, and yet there are no charges laid, 10 months later, to enforce Section 331 of the
Continue readingLeDaro: Lies about F-35
CBC’s At Issue panel has a good discussion on F-35. It is worth watching. Also an interesting discussion on NDP leader Thomas Mulcair’s ad.
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The F-35 Boondoggle
Many are angry that instead of the promised $16 billion cost of the new F-35’s the actual price tag will be more than $25 billion but Canadians shouldn’t forget that originally not only did this government continually claim the cost would only be $9 billion, Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay, Tony
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Ol’ JB sings a mournful tune: Hang Down Your Head, Peter MacKay
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I recorded up another song. This one’s all about that famous liar from down east in Nova Scotia, Peter MacKay. I reckon ol’ Petey really oughta hang down his head in shame. If he thinks anyone believes his BS, he’s delus…
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Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I recorded up another song. This one’s all about that famous liar from down east in Nova Scotia, Peter MacKay. I reckon ol’ Petey really oughta hang down his head in shame. If he thinks anyone believes his BS, he’s delusional.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Ol’ JB sings a mournful tune: Hang Down Your Head, Peter MacKay
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I recorded up another song. This one’s all about that famous liar from down east in Nova Scotia, Peter MacKay. I reckon ol’ Petey really oughta hang down his head in shame. If he thinks anyone believes his BS, he’s delusional.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: If It’s Not One Thing
…It’s your Mother. Is that how the expression goes? == The Conservatives haven’t been in hot water over just one scandal lately. There are more than the average human can keep track of. If you take their screw ups, deceptions, and crimes individually, many Canadians feel they are just run
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Charter Night
Last night I spent a little time with some Liberals to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ralph Goodale noted a few of the other anniversaries coming up this year in his speech to the crowd of about 50 people. I was perhaps the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Corruption and Political Disengagement
Last night I had a long telephone conversation with my good friend Dave, who lives in Winnipeg. Like me (and probably more so), Dave has a keenly developed sense of justice and fair play, and when those values are violated, he is outraged. Last evening, as he was telling me
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