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This Canadian vice admiral was the number two person in the Canadian Armed Forces until a year ago when he was relieved. Canada no longer has Supply ships.
He is suspected of releasing classified information to a contractor concerning a a supply ship lease proposal. He is under investigation. He is persona non grata at the Department of National Defence. He is an outcast now even though he has not been officially charged with a crime. He is receiving his full salary while this investigation continues. This story will be of interest to Navy people on rallypoint. A weird story.
He is suspected of releasing classified information to a contractor concerning a a supply ship lease proposal. He is under investigation. He is persona non grata at the Department of National Defence. He is an outcast now even though he has not been officially charged with a crime. He is receiving his full salary while this investigation continues. This story will be of interest to Navy people on rallypoint. A weird story.
Man overboard
Posted from nationalpost.com
Naval/Maritime History
Maritime
VADM
Pentagon
Investigation
Posted 7 y ago
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Crazy to give up supplies....I thought I heard an army travels on its stomach...or supplies are needed.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
SN Greg Wright - "Free healthcare" comes from taxes. Plain and simply. Personal taxes from the citizens. Government has nothing to do with it. Never has. Never will. Aren't working? Can't get taxed. Can't get taxed? No "free" healthcare. Canada could build 1000 ships and it wouldn't affect their healthcare.
Their defense budget would get nothing from reduced or diminished healthcare. Does the USN get more ships because your health insurance is cheaper? NORAD and SAC had Canadian overflights during the Cold War days but those are long gone.
Their defense budget would get nothing from reduced or diminished healthcare. Does the USN get more ships because your health insurance is cheaper? NORAD and SAC had Canadian overflights during the Cold War days but those are long gone.
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SN Greg Wright
PO3 Donald Murphy - You simply can't be that naive. Let's say Canada has, through taxes, 100 dollars to spend. They can spend it on defense or healthcare or whatever they want. Defense will cost 30 dollars without any outside help. The other 70 goes towards typical municiple expenses. Only suddenly, you have a buddy willing to pay 20 dollars of that 30 for your defense. So you re-allocate those 20 bucks to, say health care. Why? That's human nature. Like everyone else on the planet, you walk on someone exactly and precisely as much as they let you. And in this case, we're letting them walk on us for 20 bucks. This is simple math, simple statistics.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
SN Greg Wright - If simple math was true, we Americans would have the finest/cheapest healthcare on the planet. Considering that we pay so much, right? Also, don't blame our stupidity on their politics. If we're dumb enough to patrol their airspace for free, then what are we? Yes, yes...applause all around for us being the bastions of freedom. And at the end of the day, what exactly does that buy us besides a bag of chips?
Don't equate their feelings with ours. Do THEY feel that their airspace needs patrolling? No? Then you are not financially impacting them. If it costs $20 to patrol their airspace and America pipes up and says "hey, we'll take care of that for you," then thats a horse of a different color. But if America is doing it because *AMERICA* feels that it needs to be done, then you're on your own. Plain and simple. Our intentions may be good, but if the other nation feels that it really doesn't need to ramp up to the level we do, then our costs will make no difference to them.
Lastly - population of 35 million. You honestly think cutting healthcare would give them a tanker or two?
Don't equate their feelings with ours. Do THEY feel that their airspace needs patrolling? No? Then you are not financially impacting them. If it costs $20 to patrol their airspace and America pipes up and says "hey, we'll take care of that for you," then thats a horse of a different color. But if America is doing it because *AMERICA* feels that it needs to be done, then you're on your own. Plain and simple. Our intentions may be good, but if the other nation feels that it really doesn't need to ramp up to the level we do, then our costs will make no difference to them.
Lastly - population of 35 million. You honestly think cutting healthcare would give them a tanker or two?
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