COMMENTARY: Canada will screw up the submarine replacement. It’s just a matter of how and when

Global News Radio 640 Toronto ^ | January 24, 2019 | Matt Gurney

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

I’ll say this for Canada’s military procurement system: it’s predictable. Predictably bad, yeah, but there’s something for consistency.

I’ve been writing about our bipartisan history of absolutely catastrophic military procurement for more than a decade. If anything, it’s actually gotten worse.

In fact, it was only about six weeks ago that I was writing here about the latest embarrassment in Canadian military procurement — our 10-year plan, which will probably end up running long, to procure 25,000 new 9 mm pistols to equip our military, replacing the Second World War-era pistols we currently use. Britain pulled off a similar procurement in two years. I don’t just mean generally similar, I mean eerily similar — the Canadian and British procurements are an accidental A-B test. I’m not sure which country is A or B, but I am sure which country was able to actually get new pistols to its armed forces. It wasn’t us, needless to say.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

The Canadian military historically, suffers famine under the Lieberals and a 'vegan' feast (ie: very little meat) under Conservatives. Conservatives patch the holes and remove most of the rust that accumulates under the Lieberals but can only replace SOME of the damage done by the Lieberals. As noted by many American FReepers, those who have at least one star (or maple leaf, in Canada's case) on their shoulder board, are politicians. As such, very few will stand up in public to discuss how the military is ravaged by the pols. Of course, fear of a loss of pension and benefits is a big incentive for them to keep quiet.

Of course, Bébé Turd-owe is merely continuing the tradition of grinding down the CAF, as his father, or at least his namesake, Rocky Waterhole (Pierre Trudeau) did for so many years.

Assuming the recently announced life extension of our submarine fleet is merely politicking in an election year, are the plans for the H. L. Hunley available?

[posterchild]

Don’t they have a fleet of 3 submarines in the water park at West Edmonton Mall? /s

[jonascord]

"are the plans for the H. L. Hunley available?"

Now that the original Hunley is available, I'd wager that you could score the one that sat outside the city museum, for years, cheap.
It was built as a project by a high school shop class, based on the then available data. It's now known to be wildly inaccurate.

The Canadian government should write a letter...

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

They're gone. Perhaps they were the secret stop-gap measure between the Oberon-class and the current Victoria-class subs. The one slight grace is that members of the CAF are very proficient with their equipment, likely because they have it for so long and therefore, grow in their proficiency with such equipment.

[PIF]

Canada has the kind of military the US liberals would die for.

[PIF]

Canada has the kind of military the US liberals would die for.

[blueunicorn6]

Canada needs to use polar bears in their military.

You take a dozen ninjas and put em up against one polar bear, and I’m betting on the polar bear.

[Lower Deck]

We can take some small comfort in the fact that as bad as Canadian procurement is, and it’s pretty wretched, it is nowhere near the nightmare that India’s is.

[blueunicorn6]

They could use polar bears against enemy subs.

I’ve seen polar bears dive underwater.

They would see an enemy submarine and dive down to it and knock on the door and say “Pizza Hut”, and when the enemy opens the door to get their fresh, hot pizza, well, the polar bear can go through that sub like Joy Behar going through those little bottles of gin.

[mdmathis6]

Throwing stars take out the eyes and the bear is done for.

[blueunicorn6]

So, you’re probably asking yourself how polar bears could be used for air defense in Canada.

That or you’re trying to decide if you want tacos again.

Aha!

Polar bears in hot air balloons.

They go up to say 50,00 feet and wait for their prey to come by.

Once they see the enemy jet, they time their jump to land on the plane.

Some enemy pilot is driving along and he sees something white up in the sky?

Could it be a polar bear?

Maybe it’s just a polar bear shaped cloud.

He can’t be sure.

And that second of indecision is his downfall.

The polar bear lands on his plane, opens the door and eats the pilot.

The British are probably kicking themselves for not thinking of this in WWII.

[blueunicorn6]

Polar bears with goggles.

$9.99 at most any store.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Cheap is what Turd-owe is looking for. It leaves more money in an overly inflated, and debt-funded budget for ‘important’ things like welcoming thousands of economic ‘refugees’ crossing at Roxton Road, from NYS! Lack of spending on the military means more money to give to jihadis who decide to sue GouvFedCan.

I’m sure his ‘perfumed princes’ who ‘work’ at 101 Col. By Drive, will be looking into such a purchase. After all, it does fit the bill for Kanaduh going green by ‘reducing, reusing and recycling’, that Justine is so keen on.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

True dat! And with a military like that, they WOULD die!

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Well, they might be part of the Canadian Rangers. After all, Turd-owe would be discriminating against 'species' if he did not allow patriotic polar bears into the Canadian Rangers. In addition to providing 'eyes'and 'ears' in Canada's Arctic, polar bears could add 'scenting' to the Rangers.

[SgtHooper]

Canada will need to find vast stores of baking soda.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Every American ally can have a military like Canada’s as long as the US military remains as it is. When the Dems finally get America to have a military like Canada’s, all Hell will break loose.

[MeganC]

Canada should follow the lead of Costa Rica and just stop pretending to have a military.

[Dont tread and Live]

the Canadian military is a joke

[blueunicorn6]

“Scenting”?

“We train these polar bears to sniff out enemy infiltrators.

If they smell like beer and back bacon, they’re probably just snowmobilers and he leaves them alone.

If they smell like vodka, he’s on them like a wounded seal.”