A guide to the nine standard stages through which a typical DND procurement boondoggle proceeds during the life of the program.
The nine steps of DND boondoggles
Tag Archives: Peter MacKay
Pundits on the F-35 fiasco
Prominent media commentators and pundits weigh in on the F-35 procurement fiasco.
New defence agreement with the U.S.
Another defence cooperation agreement between the Canada and the United States is signed.
Senior DND officials hid costs
The renovation of the former Nortel campus for the Department of National Defence has become the subject of controversy following the discovery that senior officials hid the price of the project from not only the public, but also the media and parliamentarians (David Pugliese, “Defence officials hid cost of Nortel campus renos,” Ottawa Citizen, 28 […]
Dud subs to be mothballed?
According to CBC News (Greg Weston “Canada may buy nuclear submarines,” CBC News, 27 October 2011), “high-ranking sources” within the Harper government say the government is “actively considering cutting its losses” on Canada’s problem-plagued Victoria-class subs “and mothballing some if not all of them.” Mothballing — actually eliminating — the subs would be a sensible, […]
All your base are lease to us?
The Conservative government is negotiating to establish a series of military support bases around the world, Defence Minister Peter MacKay has confirmed (Tristin Hopper, Canada to expand military reach with new facilities across the globe, National Post, 2 June 2011): The plan, dubbed the Operation Support Hubs Network, involves establishing a permanent presence in up […]