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Harper Set to Announce $15 Billion in Military Spending
Wed Jun 21, 09:51 PM EST

Ottawa will announce $15 billion in new spending on the Canadian military next week, CBC News has learned.

A report by SRC, the CBC's French language service, says the spending spree will be "Christmas in June for the Canadian Forces."

On Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to announce in Halifax that the Conservative government will fund the building of three new supply ships. That is expected to cost about $2.1 billion.

On Tuesday, the announcement will be to give the army new trucks. That promise, worth about $1.1 billion, will be made in Quebec.

On Wednesday, in Edmonton, will come the official announcement about helicopters. The prime minister will issue an invitation to tender for 15 new helicopters at a cost of about $4.2 billion.

Finally, on Thursday at CFB Trenton in Ontario, Harper will announce a competition worth $4.6 billion to replace Canada's aging fleet of Hercules aircraft, some of which date back to the 1960s.

Harper will also promise to buy at least four C-17 transport planes, which are massive heavy-lift aircraft, at a cost of $3 billion.

That adds up to over $15 billion and fulfills a campaign promise by the Conservatives to make the Canadian military a top priority.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/cbc/s/21062006/3/canada-harper-set-announce-15-billion-military-spending.html

[Octavius Hite]

Its good that he's investing in the forces so that they may do their jobs better and more safely but O'Connor has been reading the Cheney handbook way too much. His desire for the C-17 despite Hillier saying it was not wanted or needed (he prefers the Herc) scares me and they will pay come next election if they keep behaving this way.

[WorldWide]

Say goodbye to your surplus, Canada!

Welcome back deep international debt.....

[Octavius Hite]

1 loonie of debt and the Tories will again be decimated and religated to the dustbin, where conservatives belong.

[Wrench]

Its about friggen time. Sending troops under the liberal leadership into A-stan with out weapons was brilliant.

Canadian military really needs to start upgrading their old crap.

I say spend on it or get rid of it and declare nutrality.



I get the feeling Ocatvious is the biggest Liberal Bleedhart that has come out of Canada. Dood you make me sick. You must be from eastern Canada. Yeah yeah, who would you rather have the absolutly corupt liberals or the Communist NDP that would take 5 minutes to run the country into the ground. If I have to choose a lesser evil conservatives is the way I choose. I just hope they start doing something about property issues.

Since I am planning on joing the armed forces when I get back I think this is great w00t for me.

[Octavius Hite]

Actually it was the Liberals who saved Canada from having to go and beg at the feet of the IMF after The Chin and his girlfriend Campbell nearly destroyed my great country. Please remember that FACT. If the Conservatives had not run this country into massive debt, the Lib's wouldn't have had to destroy the military.

I never said I was against the purchases. Helicopters (one's that actually work unlike our Griffin's), new trucks and a new fleet of Herc's are great. The country shouldn't go into deficit to buy them. The C17's are nothing more than attempt by an old "cold warrior type" (O'Conner) to try and bring back the days of Canadian aircraft carriers and the Airborne.

I am very good friends with Rick Hillier and his family and while him and I do not see eye to eye a great deal (me being a pinko commie afterall) I do trust his judgement. If he says the C17's are unnecessary, they are. You are a know it all soldier wanna be, let's leave the decisions about equipment purchases to the soldiers and not the politicians or the wannabes.

PS, I hope you join the airforce, then my sister is likely to be your boss. Lol, us commie's have lots of high friends!

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[Octavius Hite]

I'm not against the military spending as long as we aren't going into deficit spending and its what is needed, not what is wanted by some political hack. We need a new fleet of Herc's we don't need strategic airlift C-17's. That's all. If people like Gopher had their way Canada would be spending 100 billion dollars to buy stealth bombers and nuclear submarines. It is morally wrong to cut funding to education and healthcare to buy military equipment, and most Canadians believe that. So as long as we are buying stuff that is actually needed to do the mission in Afghanistan then I'm ok with it.

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[Moldy Rutabaga]

Maybe not zee Germans-- although there are stories of U-boats off the shores of Canada in past wars!

Every once in a while now I hear suggestions in the world press that Canada should be dropped as a member of the G7/8 and China or India added. We claim to be important, but we're not-- we aren't an economic or military heavyweight anymore in comparison. Other than peacekeeping, our military reputation since the 1950's is nonexistent. Did anyone outside Canada actually care whether or not we wanted to send troops to Iraq--when we didn't have any to send anyway or suitable equipment for them to use?

Some like for the country to be in the shadows, and maybe that's not so bad either. Not many people want to take vengeance on Iceland. But at the same time, if we claim to be a sovereign country we need the capability of defending ourselves. Maybe people don't want us to be obsessed with our military like the Americans-- but if we can't be arsed to police our borders with helicopters built after Vietnam, the Americans will do it for us; in the long run, that may not be a better influence.

Ken:>

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