CanPol: Thread of the Year Edition

[joncha]

Fast and efficient if you can afford it, anyway.

[notyoueither]

Bull. Paid for by the Province of Alberta, no matter who you are.

Get another bogey man.

[Tingkai]

Another lame-brain idea from the Conservatives. Harper wants to buy three troop-carrying icebreakers. Someone needs to tell the Conservatives about a little invention called the airplane.

Just another example of how the Conservatives will squander tax dollars if they get elected.

[notyoueither]

'Troop-carrying icebreakers'?



Is that what you imagine 'armed' to be?

[Tingkai]

From Torstar:

He unveiled the Tory strategy to protect Canada's Arctic sovereignty, a $3.5 billion plan that includes the construction of three new troop-carrying icebreakers, a remote-sensing system to detect the presence of foreign vessels, an Arctic army training centre, and a deep-water naval and civilian port in Iqaluit.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1135291812531&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home

Three ships plus the port for a price tag of $9 billion. Brilliant.

[Tingkai]

Plus basing 500 troops full time in Iqaluit. Now that's going to be a posting that everyone in the forces will want. And they'll be doing so much up there, standing guard against a threat that doesn't exist.

[notyoueither]

Would you rather just pass on Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic?

Perhaps we should welcome Russian bases on Baffin Island?

WTF do you want?

[notyoueither]

American bases on Ellesmere?

[joncha]

We should put a base on Hans Island.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Tingkai
Plus basing 500 troops full time in Iqaluit. Now that's going to be a posting that everyone in the forces will want. And they'll be doing so much up there, standing guard against a threat that doesn't exist.

Where did you get the 500 from, other than your ass?

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by joncha
We should put a base on Hans Island.

Good idea. We could start with 365 day a year capability to get to the place.

[joncha]

The navy is too busy guarding our precious turbot reserves.

[notyoueither]

The Navy will do anything we ask of them, if we give them the equipment to do it.

They will stay silent when our leaders say stupid **** that they can never do, too.

The question now is do we want more stupid **** the forces can never do, and beat our chests about it, or do we want some reasonable goals that the forces can get done with a little help?

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by notyoueither


Where did you get the 500 from, other than your ass?

That's twice you've shown you don't know what you are talking about.

Then again, that's par for the course for you.

This time from the Globe:
Station three new armed naval heavy icebreakers, to be made in Canada, in the area of Iqaluit, which will include 500 regular force personnel for crews and support and will be capable of carrying troops.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051222.weltories1222/BNStory/specialDecision2006/

[notyoueither]

You never disappoint, Tingkai.

At least 500 sailors would operate the icebreakers
and the docking station

Tell me. For our claim over the opening NW Passage, do you consider 500 staff too much?