Just an end note to my previous post. During the years my wife and I owned a series of flight schools and a charter business we often employed military personnel who were "doing time" at national defense HQ in Ottawa, one of these chaps { Flt Lt} would fly for us in the evenings and weekends was in "procurement", he once stated to us, {on the day he quit and went full time civil flying} that in five years he had "not managed to purchase even a single pencil "as the civil service obstructed every attempted purchase, he now sits at the pointy end of a very big aircraft, is well paid and a very happy man!
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