Oh Canada…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. There are many reasons why I love Canada. A country good enough to give me citizenship and one with truly some of the most beautiful scenery on the planet. As an ex member of the UK Military, one of the reasons I love Canada is that, no matter how bad UK procurement is, I am reminded that there is always at least one country that manages to screw it up more completely than Britain.
F35 is a great example. It took the current Liberal government almost two full terms to realise that one of their major manifesto pledges, to dump F35, was the wrong call. After hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers money was wasted they came to the realisation that the only jet on the market that could meet the requirements they stated was the one jet they were desperate to eliminate from the competition.
Now, shall we talk about submarines?
BV