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Old 09-03-2008, 01:40 PM   #118
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Originally Posted by MarchHare View Post
What has Harper done for the military since becoming PM? Aside from a lot of talk about being a pro-military Conservative, what specific actions has he taken to improve the Canadian Forces? I'm not being rhetorical -- I genuinely want to know, because I follow political news quite closely, but I don't remember any specific accomplishments in that area.
- Increase the military budget/spending (however, it's not nearly enough or immediate)
- Finally picked a helicopter contract to replace aging Sea Kings
- New naval unit out in BC (The Canadian equiv. to the US Seals)
- Upgraded and building new JTF2 training base
- Desert camo for our soliders
- New Mercedes armour vechicles
- Election promise, new Foreign Intelligence department to run along side CSIS (since been cancelled, too bad, would have been cool)

Just off the top of my head
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