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Originally Posted by ninty9
I don't know if thats a good thing or not. I can't really see Canada rolling out tanks in some foreign country, we'd have a pretty tough time getting them there. But I don't know if we should get rid of them.
I disagree with getting rid of destroyers and supply ships. I mean look how many times they were dispatched this year. After sept 11 we had about 6 ships in the gulf. There are probably 2 or 3 there right now.
He said he wants to replace the sea kings, but if he gets rid of our ships, there will be no place for them to land! They stay on the frigates.
I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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I agree there, I did some searching and you only have 38 major ships in your navy, cutting those doesnt make much sense. And yeah you cant land helicopters if theres no place to land'em.[/quote:ca596]
We only have 4 destroyers so if he wants to cut those then that won't affect the new helicoptors cause they go on the frigates. I don't know why he would cut supply ships. We only have 2 and you would think we would need those. oOo:
[quote:ca596]Why does he want to get rid of the armor you already have? That doesn't make much sense to me unless it's totally obsolete. It obviously costs money to have and maintain these things, but it can't be enough to justify getting rid of it. [/quote:ca596]
I don't know. The basic idea is that they want to spend in new areas and areas that we will need in the future like conter terrorsim. To do that they have to cut in other areas. I guess they don't see us using our tanks any time soon and to tell you the truth I don't either. I doubt were going to war with the states or mexico, so theres no real point in ahving them. I doubt there is going to be a real war where we need to use a full invasion force with tanks. Their the Leopard tanks bought in the 70's from Germany. They've been upgraded recently so that doesn't make much sense either.
Anyway hes calling for 1 billion increase on our annual 12.5. This is suprising to me because the defence minister is speaking out aginst the Prime Minister. Chretien already said there would be no new money for the military as they incrested the budget last year after Sept 11. There are other parties in canada who want to increase spending by 2 billion, but they'll never get in.