-The Con's Should get Their SH iterations Right

Submitted: 8:32, PDT, 15 Mar.'11 CBC News
F-35 price not firm, Hawn admits, However, Conservative MP says it won't change, Laura Payton, CBC News, 14 Mar.'11
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/03/14/pol-hawn-f35s.html

"F-35 price not firm, Hawn admits"

Hummm . . . That's interesting

Wasn't it Peter MacKay, Harper Minister, that stated just a very short while ago, and has been say for many months:

"The F35 is the right aircraft for Canada's air force and its costs are firm"
( Niagara Falls Review, 25 Feb.'11)

Then there's the MacKay statements (G&M, 5 Nov.'10)
“What our department officials are telling us – who are in direct contact with Lockheed – is that [increases in development costs] will not affect the Canadian costs nor will it affect delivery time,” the minister said in an interview

and, “We are being told that the conventional aircraft is on time and on budget.”

But how does all this square with what Hawn is saying

Also,

Hawn: "Page should have spoken with Lockheed Martin, the company making the jet, but didn't"

But, MacKay said that Lockheed Martin has been telling him that the US budget over-runs will not affect Canada

Something's not Right here - morally that is, as far as Harper is concerned it is pretty much par for the course

Perhaps Hawn should have talked to Lockheed Martin and Peter MacKay and get his SH iterations Right.

Perhaps, MacKay 'fall-back position' is that what he said is not in Hansard and so he didn't say it

Maybe Hawn is the vanguard of Harper finally acknowledging the Supremacy of Parliament and trying to climb out from under the Contempt charges

Perhaps, but grudgingly

Harper, Hawn, MacKay and the Con's are still giving us the snow job - by saying there are millions of pages of relating to costs. Isn't that what the Harper gang said when he was found in contempt of Parliament regarding the Afghan Detainee Transfer Scandal - when's that coming back, anyway

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html