- I guess Harper feels these things are simply just too complicated to discuss during an election

- submitted: 8:25am, PDT, 9 Apr.'11 CBC
Navy to upgrade torpedoes for troubled subs, CBC News, Apr 8, 2011
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/04/08/ns-submarines-torpedoes.html

"Canada's navy plans to spend about $120m to upgrade 36 torpedoes" and they won't even fit.

Am I reading this 'Right' (morally that is as opposed to a right wing extremist sort of way)

God save Canada!

It's just a wee bit insane to be spending $120m on 36 torpedoes. Who would we be using them on anyway, that we would pay $3.33m per shot to try to sink them.

Of course,

there is some kind of Bizarro World logic here - if our sub's can't fire them they we won't be wasting the money.

Mr. Harper

Canadians have a right to know just exactly what war you are planning to wage that you would squander our money so recklessly

with these torpedoes and $30 billion for 65 F-35 strike force jets and $40 billion our navy's Canadian Surface Combatant*(see: http://www.vanguardcanada.com/FutureFleetMack) and counting.

Oh, I forgot,

the Statement of Operational Requirements is classified (embassy mag, 02-23-2011)

(that means Canadians are not allowed to know why we need the F-35's and other military procurements - just for those that are wondering about the military jargon)

And to add insult to injury we had to learn this from the US.

Of course, Harper refusing to release the Afghan Detainee Transfer Scandal documents and reports may mean that we will only learn what happened in Afghanistan from sources outside Canada as well. How would it look if our Prime Minister and/or Ministers of the day were somehow embroiled with domestic criminal proceeding or the International Criminal Courts at the Hague.

I guess Harper feels these things are simply just too complicated to discuss during an election

right up there with the cost of his Criminal Legislation and the $11b Harper Gov fat trimming.

Harper was in Contempt of Parliament for withholding the costs of his Criminal and Military policies

Now Harper is in contempt of the voters.

*Canadian Surface Combatant
The most anticipated vessel in the new wave of shipbuilding is the Canadian Surface Combatant, the 15 ships that will replace the current mix of destroyers and frigates. With acquisition costs of about $26 billion and in-service support estimated at almost $15 billion over twenty years, these ships will be Canada’s military presence on the world’s oceans.
http://www.vanguardcanada.com/FutureFleetMack

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html