Yeah, why bother investing money protecting our shores when we can have another tax cut...
uwish
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:03 pm
unfortunately the ops budget for the coast guard hasn't been increased much in the last budget.
I was hoping for about 10 % increase. That way any capital projects won't need to come out of ops.
I bet they will correct that with some increased funding in the near future. The Coast Guard is going to be an integral part of northern defence and monitoring so I do not see how this can be accomplished without an increase to their budget.
BartSimpson
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:13 pm
The new minsweepers look promising.
Scape
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:33 pm
You would think with the $8.8 billion in pork they could have found a little to deal with this?
Makes his talk on the carbon tax sound downright absurd.Thanks for pissing away a surplus that took us over a decade to get asshole.
llama66
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:53 pm
which one is the new minesweeper? the one in the front or the one in the back?
BartSimpson
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:53 pm
llama66 llama66:
which one is the new minesweeper? the one in the front or the one in the back?
The one the guys are standing on.
ziggy
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:00 pm
llama66 llama66:
which one is the new minesweeper? the one in the front or the one in the back?
Leave it to the Canadians to turn a fishing trawler into a minesweeper,a real "get er done" attitude eh?
robmik43
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:34 pm
We guard the coasts in a Staunchly Maritime fashion, but we let the enemy in every day through our airports.....
llama66
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:54 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
llama66 llama66:
which one is the new minesweeper? the one in the front or the one in the back?
The one the guys are standing on.
I figured as much, larger ship looked too large, fast and modern for Canada
Robair
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:33 pm
Scape Scape:
You would think with the $8.8 billion in pork they could have found a little to deal with this?
Makes his talk on the carbon tax sound downright absurd.Thanks for pissing away a surplus that took us over a decade to get asshole.
Bacardi4206
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:41 pm
Look at the bright side, atleast if they can actually catch up with other boats (Being slower and all). They can atleast scare them off by having a presence there. Why actually need a boat that can actually catch drug dealers, boats carrying illegal immigrants and other illegal activites when you can get not the same thing, with a tax cut. Gotta love our government, we are good at stupid.
uwish
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:03 am
that goes for all governments in the past 15 years.
crooked face publically stated he hated spending money on the military. And dithers was no better.
bootlegga
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:46 am
uwish uwish:
that goes for all governments in the past 15 years.
crooked face publically stated he hated spending money on the military. And dithers was no better.
Harper hasn't done shit for the navy or coast guard lately either...other than cancel and postpone projects he himself promised.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:05 am
Well with only so much to go around in the Defence Budget boots, and the fact that the Navy is not actively in combat unlike the Army (and the Airforce boys getting our us and our stuff there), I can understand how they may have been over looked for the past few years, not making excuses, just stating the truth. The difference is though maybe in the past 30 months, the Navy did not reciev much, the Military as a whole has done much better than when the other party sent us into combat in the first place.
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