Department of National Defence
In defence of Canadian shipbuilding
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.
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.
Holding pattern
On May 1, as previously noted, I sent the following questions to the office of minister of state Julian Fantino.
Accounting for the Defence Department
The mission in Libya cost significantly more than the Defence Minister once suggested. And the government recently described the purchase of 13 new armoured vehicles as a purchase of transmission parts.