... "rush to sign" a procurement that took more than a decade ...
They're "rushing to sign" before the Mark Norman trial proceeds any further and the Irving Shipyard comes out looking like SNC Lavalin.
The unfortunate part is that the Type 26 is likely the far better choice for our navy. The Aussies seem to agree. There are all sorts of advantages to operating versions of the same ship in our alliances. The Americans are also looking for a now Frigate design and Lougheed's ownership of BAE allows the Brits to slap that all-important "Proudly Made in USA" sticker on the prow. It could develop into the "super Frigate" of all of the English-speaking navies with the right armament suites (the Francophone crew of HMCS Ville de Quebec excepted).
Oh congrats to not so Curious Cdn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He has presented all the usual MEANINGLESS TALKING POINTS about the new ships that LIE-berals are PRETENDING TO BUY US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals are merely pretending to buy ships so they can partly escape that nasty label of NATO SLACKER AND TERRORIST ENABLER that they are wearing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The BAE type 26 ships are in current use in several allied navies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meaning they have been in development for a decade or so - while weapon and sensor developments have moved on...............
So LIE-berals have seized on this fact to sponsor development of a MODERN NEW SHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The modern new LIE-beral ship can be expected to have all the unreliability issues and mechanical weakness as the Cormorant helicopters purchased by LIE-beral Jean Chretien!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course this PRESUMES that LIE-berals will ever actually take delivery of a new warship so the design failures may be exposed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Canada has been in the market for new fighter jets for a DECADE and we are ACTUALLY FARTHER AWAY from buying ANYTHING than we were five years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals do not like the F-35 - so okay FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT WHAT OTHER MODERN NEW AIRCRAFT HAVE LIE-berals purchased?????????????????????
LIE-berals have purchased a few aging nearly antique Australian f 18 fighters as a stop gap- just to get Trump to stop crying NATO SLACKER at Canada for a few minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And while buying the old jets- they have made sure there will be NO PILOTS available to fly them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-beral bait and switch works on the military as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals told us THREE YEARS AGO that they would buy NEW AIRCRAFT and so far their efforts have produced nothing but some lawsuits over purchase terms from aircraft makers who feel they have been unfairly shut out of the "competition"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals are following the lead of Pierre Trudeau who wanted to completely DISBAND the ENTIRE Cdn military - at the height of the Cold War!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And how better to disarm Canada than to let the military ROT OUT without bothering to replace any equipment???????????
LIE-berals think it is DISGRACEFUL that Cdns think LIE-beral gravy should be WASTED on something TRIVIAL like national security and defense!!!!!!!!!!!!
And LIE-berals have decided that holding design competitions for hypothetical ships that do not currently EXIST and may never be built - IS CHEAPER and more politically correct than actually BUYING SHIPS of proven design that DO EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have only to look at the EH 101 helicopter contract to see LIE-beral style weapon procurement in action!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Mulroney Conservative govt came to the honest conclusion that our aging Sea King helicopters had become DANGEROUSLY UNRELIABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who wants to fly far out into the stormy Atlantic on a worn out helicopter that has been kept flying by cannibalizing spare parts off other CRASHED helicopters -because the copter you are riding in is SO OLD there are no more new parts left in the entire world?????????????????
So Mulroney arranged to buy EH 101 copters- a powerful and PROVEN state of the art machine IDEAL for Cdn operations over the ocean or Arctic - where any major engine failure would leave you stranded a VERY LONG WAY FROM ANY RESCUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Eh 101 had 3 engines and if one quit -the machine was GUARANTEED to still be able to fly back to base- though it might have to dump assorted gear to lighten the load if the trip was a long one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But LIE-berals do not like wasting THEIR money on weapons so Chretien paid a $500 million dollar penalty to get out of the EH 101 contract!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course in the end LIE-berals were forced to buy new copters and could not admit they needed the EH 101!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So LIE-berals bought Cormorants- a smaller, cheaper, less capable and unproven machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the newly delivered Cormorants immediately began having tail rotor troubles that had not been previously noticed due to how new the machine was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the Cormorant is a 2 engine machine -if an engine dies it is guaranteed not to be WRECKED when it hits the ground!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eh 101 with an engine out- flies back to base!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cormorant with an engine out hits the ground and needs rescuing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who would fly out over the Atlantic in a Cormorant if an Eh 101 was available instead???????????????????????????
Surely even a LIE-beral could answer such a question -IF THEY DARED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course the smaller Cormorants cannot carry the same cargo as Eh 101 one so Cormorants must often make multiple trips for jobs that an Eh 101 could do in one shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So now LIE-berals are going to "buy" us new ships!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And who wants to bet they string out the design process FOREVER because they are only PRETENDING to buy ships!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if we actually take delivery of a new LIE-beral ship - who wants to bet it will be as costly and ineffective as all their other military purchases!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like the original F 18 fighter purchase of aircraft that had NO BOMB RACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals take DELIGHT in making sure any weapons purchased for Cdn military are as inefficient as possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!