Air force runs out of props for 40-year-old rescue aircraft

I retired from the airforce as a jet engine mechanic over 10 years ago, this is far from a new problem,first its budget "priorities", then its the "7Ps"
Prior planning prevents piss poor perfomance
and as you will note, no one in the military is standing up to take responsibility.

Now we REALLY REALLY REALLY need those C-27J Spartans...

Yesterday..... Fuck... THe Liberal put it on the fast track... in FUCKING 2004.

Put in limbo by the CPC for budgetary reasons.

This sounds oddly familiar but somehow I doubt the resident cons will kick and scream the same way.

It seems there is a legacy of neglect in our military, going back decades. Now the current regime is struggling with catch-up....and those who committed the past neglect are the loudest critics. Personlly I make no distinction in laying the blame The Mulrooney, Cretin, Martin regimes all share this negligence IMHO.

Bollocks. The Liberals had a fast tracked purchase lined up yet Harper shelved it.

Martin was also the first person to begin the serious rebuiling.

Peddle your partisan hackery elsewhere.

The military in most liberal nations tends to get short shrift regardless if the party in power is liberal or conservative. This is not a question of the priorities of the party in power but of the electorate. Canadians as a whole do not consider the military a priority.

That's not a Liberal, NDP, or CPC problem, but a Canadian problem.

Blaming each other for shortfalls in the military when no one is willing to make the tough choices needed to rectify those issues is simply pointless partisanship. At some point your political leaders need to realize that defending Canada is not a liberal or conservative issue, but a Canadian issue.

The problem is that the tough decisions were made. They were made in order to bring the budget deficit down and out and the debt reduced. That allowed Martin to provide the first serious spending increase and allowed Harper to do the same.