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Originally Posted by Slava
Ya, obvious scams being the exception (and lets not kid ourselves the CPC has one of their own with the "in and out" where senior members have been charged). I don't care which party that kind of thing happens with, there is no justification for outright deceit and theft.
I guess I'm thinking of pure transparency accountability though. Basically whenever Harper et al are challenged on something they either ignore it or simply hide the facts. Latest case in point is the cost of the new jets which are estimated to be closer to $30billion where the government says they are only about 1/2 that. Rather than talk about the cost estimates though they are just saying that they thnk they're right....which is clearly just ridiculous and neither accountable nor transparent!
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I really question the figures on the jets that they're coming back with, but thats based on scatterings of information in the news.
First and foremost when the parlimentary budget officer released these numbers they added an extra decade onto the 20 year contract that the conservatives have suppossedly signed, trying to I think base it around the life time of the hornet.
Second from my understanding of this, they phoned our allies and the pentagon to dig for numbers based around the purchases that were being made by allies. From what I understand the numbers that are being presented are not being based on the Canadian understanding of purchase, but on allies purchasing the same jets under different numbers.
I think before we take this $30 billion as gospel we need to understand how that number was arrived at. I think that the Conservatives have to release the terms of the understanding of purchase.