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Originally Posted by tenyardrambo
I remember in the early 2000's when Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan were complaining that they had to wait and share guns.
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Well the issue here isn't "should we buy some planes" its much deeper. Let me try to give a Coles notes:
Remember last year around this time when parliament was asking for information and the Conservatives stone-walled them? This was the information. Basically every other country knew that the F35s were going to cost more money, but the Conservatives would not relent; they wouldn't agree to provide information on how the costs were being calculated and were finally found in contempt of parliament. The debates in our thread here on CP trivialized this and many thought that the opposition was just trying to make the Conservatives look bad for their own gain.
Well here we are a year or so later and now we see that this was an absolute joke. Public money was committed (although no contract signed yet) for billions of dollars. Either the DND was misleading the government and cabinet, or the cabinet was misleading parliament. Either way though the process was terrible and there are enormous issues of trust and oversight as a result.
There is no question though; the opposition was absolutely right in finding the government in contempt because this lack of oversight (at best) or lack of ethics (at worst) was allowed to fester rather than the Conservatives providing this information. Truly disgraceful and its no wonder people don't trust politicians to do the right thing.