Posted on Aug 12, 2016

Canada is retiring its last Destroyer due to rust and no replacement for 6 years. Should we sell the Canadian Navy 2 of our Frigates to help?

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The Proud Canadian Navy is wearing out. They lost two supply ships recently (one to a fire and the other rusted through) and both had to be retired. Now their last Destroyer is also rusting out. Their Navy Brass says it will take 6 years for a replacement. The Canadians have not asked us for any help but they should. Canada does help NATO with patrols in the Black Sea. They need the ships that we have.

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SN Greg Wright

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The reality is that Canada has no incentive to build up their Navy. Why? Because we will never let anything happen to them. They're content to let us bear the burden of their protection. They spend a lot of time talking about their vaunted 'free' medical and education, but the only reason they can afford those things is because they don't have to spend a significant portion of their GDP on defense...because they know WE will protect them. I don't have a problem with this. I DO have a problem with them failing to acknowledge it. And I say this as someone who lived in Halifax for 2 years.

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Ah yes, the good 'ol NATO mentality. As long as Uncle Sam is willing to pony up the bulk of the expense, the NATO allies are willing to help out. I remember during the early days of the Libya bombing campaign several countries used up their entire national stockpile of munitions in about a week's worth of operations.

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LTC Stephen Conway

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under Harper they did not have a rebuild plan so even conservatives screw up too.
read this article. the admiralty warned them in 2008.
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SN Greg Wright

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LTC Stephen Conway - That just seems to support what I said, Major, if I'm understanding correctly. They're ok with being reliant upon our Navy.

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LTC Stephen Conway

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http://nationalpost.com/news/french-italian-consortium-offers-canada-a-deal-on-a-new-fleet-of-frigates-that-could-save-32-billion

Exclusive: Consortium offers Canada a deal on a new fleet of frigates that could save $32 billion...

Fincantieri of Italy and Naval Group of France — major forces in international shipbuilding — are offering to guarantee the cost of the ships at a fixed $30 billion

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TSgt Kenneth Ellis

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They have no need of a Navy when we are here to protect them.

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LTC Stephen Conway

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Thanks for your opinion but they are our trip wire to Russian expansion. Russia wants the Northern continental shelf like China wants the South China Sea. They want the oil down there. They should protect themselves when our response time is days away.

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PO1 John Miller

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LTC Stephen Conway
We should SELL them 2 decommissioned/mothballed Frigates! :)

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LTC Stephen Conway

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1SG Al Brown - We buy oil from people who wish us dead or our friends hurt like Iran and Venezuela. Our POTUS says no to their pipelines Keystone XL pipeline over their 'dirty oil' yet nobody is Canada is being executed weekly or having their hands cut off like they do in Saudi Arabia.

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PO1 John Miller

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LTC Stephen Conway
The main reasons I was against the Keystone pipeline was:
The fact the company who was to build it wanted to use Eminent Domain to "buy" (legally steal) land from private owners, the oil obtained wasn't going to be sold to the USA, and it wouldn't have brought many (if any) jobs to the US. If I'm wrong please correct me, but that's how I remember it. Phase 4 at any rate.

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1stSgt Nelson Kerr

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Why would they want to buy them? Do THEY think they need them?

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LTC Stephen Conway

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http://nationalpost.com/news/french-italian-consortium-offers-canada-a-deal-on-a-new-fleet-of-frigates-that-could-save-32-billion

Exclusive: Consortium offers Canada a deal on a new fleet of frigates that could save $32 billion...

Fincantieri of Italy and Naval Group of France — major forces in international shipbuilding — are offering to guarantee the cost of the ships at a fixed $30 billion

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