What’s Canada Buying? August 13, 2012
- F-35 Tug o’ War Some of the usual suspects pipe in “…. What if we only bought 64 planes instead of 65? What if we targeted the other $475 million at some of the harms not just threatening but often defeating millions of Canadians, “in the 21st century at home?” What other kinds of security could the price of a single jet plane buy? We asked economists, anti-poverty organizations, and social policy thinkers for a wish list of what $475 million could buy in the way of programs to help neutralize the risk of low-income Canadians breaching our social safety net and falling into homelessness and a life of poverty. Here’s just a sampling of what that money, deployed for civilian instead of military causes, could afford ….”
- “The Department of National Defence (DND) has a requirement for the procurement of 2 lots (2,372) AN/SSQ-62E Directional Command Active Sonobuoy System (DICASS) Sonobuoys, required on or before 31 August 2013 ….”
Written by milnewsca
13 August 12 at 12:15
Posted in F-35 Fracas, What's Canada Buying?
