Bad morning to be Canadian

I woke up about 6:00 this morning, still a little sleepy but, as much as I can be, ready for the new day.  I dressed, put out the garbage, had breakfast and settled down with the newspaper to inform myself about the wonders that are my life.  That was when everything changed.

David Pugliese is one of my favourite writers.  He specializes in stories about DND.  So what was it about our wonderful men and women in Blue, White and Green that set off my day?  Well it wasn't necessarily the ones in uniform... it was the bureaucrats and the politicians that pissed me off.

It is a bit of a conundrum that thousands of Canadians died around the globe in two world wars and recently 160 died to bring democracy to Afghanistan - but here at home - we have what is fast becoming a fascist state.

The information censors at DND and in the Minister's office (and you can be very sure that the PMO had a hand in this) decided that the sensitive minds of Canadians should not be burdened with the news that $600,000,000 of their tax dollars was being spent to upgrade the newly-acquired Nortel building in west Ottawa.  Why suppress the information?  "There is no context for the expenditure and the Minster will get asked question that we do not want to answer," says the minster's office.  Why hide the information.  They bought a building that was built for a purpose different from their own - certainly it will cost to retrofit it.  The fact that they want to suppress the information leads us to wonder what else is going on?

This follows on the heals of the $470,000,000 expenditure on an American satellite program that the minister's office deemed not to be of interest not only to Canadians but to parliamentarians... the ones that should be approving the funds.

So that is over $1 billion already.  Combine that with the past revelations and stories that have not yet emerged and this government makes the Sponsorship Scandal look like chump change.  Oh, I know what you are thinking - that Sponsorship Scandal included funneling money to party hacks.  Well stay tuned because that shoe has yet to fall on these DND follies.

Next up?  The F-35 contract and maybe something on the CH-146 maintenance program?