Desmond Hawkins
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Queen's University is releasing a study (hit most of Canada's newspapers this morning), that shows that due to Paul Martin's massive cutbacks on military spending in the 90's with a corresponding increase in Canadian deployments is driving the military to extinction. The CF-18s are expiring, and we will have nothing to replace them with. The navy is being FAR overstretched, and the Army's old equipment is making it irrelevent. With Paul Martin due to become Prime Minister next election (lets not kid ourselves, he is probably a shoe-in), he may be reaping what he sowed.
http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031203.wxdefence03/BNStory/Front/
Air Force May Vanish By 2013
Some doves may like this idea, but Canada will not even be able to effectively exert control over its own territory. If they don't someone will...
http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031203.wxdefence03/BNStory/Front/
Air Force May Vanish By 2013
Some doves may like this idea, but Canada will not even be able to effectively exert control over its own territory. If they don't someone will...