[CaptainCrunch]

What's utterly ridiculous is that we've seen talk about the end of life of the CF-18's from microfractures, to wear and tear on the engines, so we go out and buy the same generation jets from Australia that have been flying in a far worse environment.


I get really aggravated over the question of defense spending and procurement.


You can't send young men and woman into dangerous situations, and even flying as part of a stunt team is dangerous, while basically failing in your duty to protect them and give them the best chance to survive and be successful.


And its not just the Liberal's though this current defense minister and this current CDS seem to be in the lead in terms of dishonesty and incompetence. The Conservatives broke some major defense spending promises. Brian Mulroney was one of the great hopes, he talked a good game with his White Paper on defense spending and in the end he let everyone down.


But doing a coast to coast moral thing with old jets like this is asking too much and ignoring the problem for public relations and I have a lot of problems with that. When they announced this thing I turned to a friend and said "I can't tell you how bad of an idea this is"