Jeffrey F. Collins: It would be nice if there were an off-the-shelf ship Canada could acquire, but none exist. Nations build ships to meet their own operational demands.
Tag Archives: Department of National Defence
Meet the world’s first female combat general
The many ways Col. Jennie Carignan is detonating the glass ceiling
Why Canada’s military risks returning to a decade of darkness
Evan Solomon on National Defence’s looming funding crisis
Using a search-and-rescue helicopter for a fishing trip sends the wrong message
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Peter Penashue is upset that a search-and-rescue helicopter was used by members of a squadron to go on a fishing trip.
Meanwhile, at the Defence Department
The Citizen discovers why a military truck procurement was halted at the last minute.
Checking DND’s math
From QP yesterday, Rona Ambrose explains why new cost estimates for the F-35 won’t be released for awhile yet.
The subjective time limit
When the Harper government offered its seven-point response to the auditor general’s concerns about the F-35 procurement in April, it included the promise of an update within 60 days.
Still waiting
A new cost estimate for the F-35 apparently won’t be ready until the fall, in contradiction of point three of the Harper government’s seven-point plan to rectify the procurement.
Protecting the minister
Laura Payton obtains correspondence related to the Defence Minister’s helicopter ride.
No need to keep studying the F-35?
The work of the parliamentary committee studying the F-35 procurement is apparently done. At least so far as the Conservative members of the committee are concerned. Here was Conservative MP Andrew Saxton’s explanation yesterday.