What are the Harper Conservatives doing? What in God’s name would a country with the land mass of Canada want with a short-range stealth fighter aircraft like the F-35? Who does National Defence Minister Peter MacKay think we are going to attack now?
A stealth fighter has only one purpose. It is designed to escape most forms of detection to enable it to go to an enemy target and let loose with shells, rockets or bombs and otherwise cause trouble. The only people we might want to do that to are the American Air Force generals and navy admirals who want us to help pay for the development of their favourite aircraft. That would mean attacking them in the Pentagon. With how Americans feel about their Pentagon, our only problem might be arranging for in-flight refuelling so that the planes could come back to Canada.
How many billions are we wasting this time, Mr. Harper? This is the guy who spent a billion of our tax dollars to tell the G20 to be frugal.
Do the Conservatives know that Canada has a huge land mass in the Arctic? To patrol and maintain our sovereignty in the Arctic, we should have big, noisy, long-range patrol aircraft that people would notice. Where is the AVRO Arrow now that we really need it?
Did Peter MacKay know that the F-35 is ideal for use on aircraft carriers? It is designed for short take off and landing needs. Since the Americans are great believers in aircraft carriers, that makes sense for them. Canada has not had an aircraft carrier since we got rid of the HMCS Bonaventure 40 years ago. It proves we knew that aircraft carriers are used to take aircraft across bodies of water so that you might attack another country. We do not even know who we are supposed to be mad at!
Mr. Harper keeps spending our money to win our approval so that we might give him a majority government. Then we could find out what a real bastard he can be.
This started out as a comment for the day. It got a bit carried away.
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