Thursday, May 13, 2010

This doesn't even come as a surprise any more.

Ho hum, another day, another example of mismanagement of the Canadian defence portfolio.
A shortage of money and sailors is forcing Canada's navy to mothball half of its fleet of coastal patrol vessels.

Canada's 12 Kingston-class ships, based in Halifax and Esquimalt, B.C., are operated by the navy reserve. The 55-metre vessels are used to patrol the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific ocean coasts.

In a statement to CBC News, the navy says it made the tough choice to leave several ships at dock and strip them of their crews because it doesn't have the resources to operate all 12.
Stand up for... ah, fuck it. I can't even be bothered to be snarky about it any more. The one area that Harper has staked his reputation on more than any other -- his support for the military -- is an utter fraud.

CC here: And here's where we juxtapose ...

5 comments:

mikmik said...

Another accomplishment, snnffff....

CC said...

Damn ... I was going to use the word "accomplishment." Sandy Crux must be so proud.

Boris said...

It's much worse than that. The mothballing is comes in hand with reducing capabilities in existing ships.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Cash+strapped+navy+forced+dock+ships/3020712/story.html
If the ships are not being mothballed, their having their teeth pulled out. A warship becomes a yacht when "combat systems on HMCS Toronto and HMCS Ottawa will be 'minimally supported to enable safe to navigate sensors and communications only' states the letter written April 23 and released to the Citizen on Wednesday. The same will happen to the destroyer HMCS Athabaskan, it added."

liberal supporter said...

If the ships are not being mothballed, their having their teeth pulled out.
Sounds like they're being turned into the Raging Queen. MacKay would be a great Captain Ned.

Dr.Dawg said...

What's this "capacity-building" stuff?