Blair steals a page from the Harper playbook to justify cuts to National Defence | CBC News

Military | 2288 hits | Oct 04 1:20 am | Posted by: Scape

For years when it was in power, the former Conservative government railed against a great, faceless bureaucracy it blamed for undermining its goals for the Department of National Defence (DND). That tactic appears to have been adopted by the current

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by DrCaleb
Wed Oct 04, 2023 1:49 pm
He learnt from the best. A billion dollar cut "will streamline things and encourage innovation".

What a load of shit.
by bootlegga
Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:31 pm
No matter who you vote for, they keep making cuts to the CAF. #@$@#$$
by Scape
Wed Oct 04, 2023 6:11 pm
The problem is, and will be for the foreseeable future, you can spend all you want on fancy new kit but if you can get the people to run it then what? That's the problem, retention. They can barley keep the people they have let alone scale up. So, while we pour billions on new jets/icebreakers/drones we cut on maintenance on the kit we are deploying thus making their end of life that much quicker.

According to the federal main estimates, the current defence budget sits at $26.5 billion and won't reach the $40 billion mark for several years. The goal of doubling expenditures is still an aspirational one.

It's more delusional at this point.

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