At that point, the admirals and the Liberal politicians could have bitten the ballast, admitted they had made a terrible mistake, and consigned the whole sub fleet to the scrapyard, at least saving taxpayers a fortune in good money after bad.
Alas, bureaucratic butt-covering triumphed in the defence department once again -- supported, we should add, by the collective genius of Paul Martin's administration -- and the decision was made that there is nothing other people's money couldn't fix, including a bunch of lemon submarines.
While defence officials publicly estimated repairs to the Chicoutimi wouldn't cost more than about $50 million, internal government documents obtained by Sun Media suggest a sub salvage sailing towards an ocean of bills several times that amount. Last August, for instance, the government issued the second of two contracts totalling more than $15 million, not to actually repair the Chicoutimi -- just to draft the plan to fix it.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Submarining taxpayers
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
CTF You Tube Channel
Canadian Taxpayers Federation's Fan Box
1 comment:
Though I believe the military needs more funding, the sheer idiocy of purchasing those submarines—not to mention the ongoing attempt to polish a turd—is astounding.
Post a Comment