June 20, 2008 Canada is being drawn into U.S.-backed plans to build a massive natural gas pipeline through the heart of war-torn Afghanistan. This incredible story was revealed Thursday in Ottawa. I joined international energy economist John Foster and CCPA director Bruce Campbell in Parliament for the release of Foster’s report on the proposed trans-Afghanistan […]
Archive | June, 2008
Response to Sen. Colin Kenny in the Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080611.LETTERS11-6/TPStory/Opinion/letters Fix the policy, then spend STEVEN STAPLES Rideau Institute June 11, 2008 Ottawa — Senator Colin Kenny is right in that what most ails the Canadian Forces is a matter of misplaced, or absent, policy direction. But his solution of throwing even more billions of dollars at the problem would only make matters worse […]
Reaction to Natynczyk as Canada’s new Chief of Defence Staff
Steven Staples and Col. Mike Capstick (ret.) discuss the new CDS on CTV’s Mike Duffy Live. Steven Staples contributed to these reports on CBC TV by Julie van Dusen, and on CTV TV by Bob Fife. +++++++ Steven Staples of the Rideau Institute on the appointment of Lt.-Gen. Walter Natynczyk as Canada’s new Chief of Defence […]
MDA sale caused unlikely alliance of opponents
Esprit de corps military magazine. June 2008, Vol 15 Issue 5. p 12. MDA sale caused unlikely alliance of opponents by Steven Staples Members of the Canadian Forces have a lot to celebrate in the government’s decision to block the sale of a large part of Canada’s space industry to a U.S. firm last month. […]