Sounds like Obbie's information is dated to when he/she left the CF.
Not so much doom and gloom is the reality. Our fleet is old, but being replaced.
Our training is world class and up to industry standards. I personally instruct Advanced Flight Training on full EFIS, FMS, RNAV machines.
We're not an airline - nor do we ever pretend to be. We do our own flight planning, we are flexible in our routing and we don't have a bottom dollar to maintain. We fly to destination to start our mission, not to accomplish it.