Canada's ON-GOING Slack Defense! EP#352
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Canadians are tired of the government's ongoing slacking out on defence procurement. It's time to get shit or get off the pot, folks! In this episode of the crusty canuck podcast, I talk about why the F-35 should be replaced with F-18s.
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a good evening ladies and gentlemen happy st patrick's day it's beautiful march 17th
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2025 come with this episode of cresting up podcast episode 352 canada's ongoing slack
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defense that's right mr mark carney blarney carney commie carney carbon tax carney wants
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to have a good substantial review over canada's procurement of the f-35 fighter jet oh just
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me thinks things were getting better according to the liberal mindset you know we gotta have
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the review and compromise our defense even more because a handful of people just don't like
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what's going on with the united states oh my goodness listener view discretion is advised
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because i will swear smoke cigarettes and speak my mind as per you know make fun of our leaders
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get it sweetheart because i am hard you will not like me
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from western canada this is the crusty canuck podcast a canadian veterans point of view
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on political social economic issues and life he is crusty that's right ladies and gentlemen welcome
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episode 352 in this beautiful st patrick's day march 17th 2025 oh my goodness keep your drink to
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i'm your host crusty canuck happy saint patty's day uh i'm gonna be kind of fast and furious here too
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because i got a lot of this information coming out uh basically defense procurement you know like i said
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in the title card defense procurement it's a big joke okay and it doesn't matter what trump said or what
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george w bush said or what obama uh or obama said or what joe biden said the canadian people are saying
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enough and we gotta get shit or get off the pot here it's just been about to my attention that mr uh
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mr mark carney uh all of a sudden wants to review the f-35 purchase now apparently there's already been
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16 that have been set aside for canadians you know to help our air force out in these troubling times
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however the government wants to sit around and review it again kind of like what they did with the
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helicopter issue back in the 1990s okay there was a situation back in 1998 where four pilots were
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killed in the labrador because of just aging old equipment you know some subtle pilot error but
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just the fact that things were breaking down and the government at the time didn't want to do anything
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about it right and now i've got some stories here about the whole fiasco from the 90s and the early
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2000s in regards to the creche government and they're slacking out of procurement not to mention
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the article i'll be reading from the uh national post from uh two years ago in regards to what the
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pbo had to say about spending money on defense issues and what have you so that being said
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well done everybody thank you very much because you help me help yourself you're informed i get my
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words out people listen they tell two friends and two friends etc etc anyhow like i said in this episode
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we're talking about the whole defense review thing there's blarney carney and his communist carbon tax
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wisdom wanting to review the whole f-35 again now personally i think can it would be better off
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with getting the brand new f-18s i think the f-18s a's i'm not exactly sure that's just me though
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because i think about what's going to be great in the arctic what's going to handle the arctic the
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high atmosphere and the altitudes and everything there to get rid of the baddies i want to sneak
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and peek over our ice shields you know that's just me though but uh needless to say the time to
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shit got off the pot we don't have time to waste anymore when it comes to getting things done
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because not only do we have the american leaders telling us hey canada smarten up start pulling
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your weight we've got some of our european allies starting to show us up okay even those european
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countries that have smaller population and smaller land masses okay and they're starting to pull their
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weight so what's our excuse ladies and gentlemen please let me know what is our excuse for our slack
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an idle defense procurement process it comes down to one thing money as always now does canada have
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the money sure we do we're part of the g7 we've got lots of money to give away here lots of money to
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give away there here there slap and tickle for someone else's pickle and your wallet you know i say
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that a lot because it's i think it's funny but it speaks some truth okay it speaks a lot of truth here
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when canada decides to buy something there's a whole fucking process that we have to go through
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and you need a board member here and a board member there and a few more board members here
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before you know it there's a lot of people getting paid before an example for example a tank hits the
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road a lot of people are getting paid and considered for promotion before any kind of wheel hits the ground
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or any kind of aircraft takes off or any kind of ship gets launched there's a lot of bureaucracy
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and i will give you an example of that when i read these articles here but for my time in the
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military we used to hear it all the time about the procurement board or what these constituents want
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or what those constituents want okay and when i did my federal campaign every constituent i talked to
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had always something positive to say about the military and how the federal government should step up
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the fucking plate and this is back in 2021 so when you talk about the constituents oh they never really
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talked about it oh really but all these constituents out of nowhere thought the carbon tax was just
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spectacular hey hardly hardly so with this whole new review thing do you really think mr carney and all your
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loyal followers okay like those little aliens from toy story oh the master the master you know do you
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really think it's worth it okay i'll ask you that okay because like the old story goes everyone hates
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a soldier or barbarian everybody hates a soldier until the enemy is at the gates right well our gates are failing
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the way of keeping the gates closed and defending said gates are failing and not because the men and women
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in uniform it's the men and women that are supposed to back up the men and women in uniform you know
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the people we elect the people we put in charge of these things so instead ladies and gentlemen if
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you're an mp happen to be watching us stop fucking worrying about your portfolio and get on with it
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get on with it for fuck's sakes right you don't need any more boards like i'm so sick and tired of
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here about procurement board this we have to bring this to the board right there's already so many
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bureaucrats in this government already that try to dictate our lives on an hourly basis when it
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comes to taxation when it comes to liquor when it comes to food when it comes to how we scratch and
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what we say and what we think about right now i don't have any articles to back up my claim with
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mr carney but in a way it doesn't surprise me okay because every federal government has come in
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has made a lot of fucking bells and whistles in regards to promises when it comes to getting our
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military sorted out meaning having a military that can deploy from a to b with no problems
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or go on a peace support mission or go on a humanitarian mission or having rid another
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dirty fucking war right like during my time in afghanistan yeah we had to ride some british
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helicopters and use some american helicopters right but we kicked ass and took names
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when you see some of your compatriots go but then when we got home we got some support some of us
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didn't but some lads did so there's still that that lingering of the canadian mantra the canadian
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mandate when it comes to looking after our soldiers it used to be done back in the first world war and
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the second world war and especially korea okay but somewhere we had this shift where you know
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only break glass in case of war kind of thing but then the glass started failing and the glass started
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cracking getting frail and then what oh it's someone else's fault just throw more money at it
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but that's not the answer ladies and gentlemen right back after this stay updated and follow
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canada's ongoing slack defense i'm your host crusty canuck and i want to say a special thank you out there
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to a chuck and karen out of jefferson city missouri chuck made a couple of good adverts for me
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so thank you very much chuck and karen out of jefferson city missouri you guys are awesome
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thank you very much and i'll cue that up later in the show and play for you all to listen but i'm going
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to read um an article from national post here for you ladies gentlemen and really pay attention to
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some of the things that are said here okay and it's just i just find it fascinating how
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the government just doesn't care they don't you can't be that stupid and you can't be that smart
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all at the same time but they just don't they just don't care and i'd have to say it's because
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of the arrogance of them relying on the americans look after things all the time rather than you know
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treating them with respect and as an ally and then maybe they can help out once in a while we can help
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them out once in a while too but we don't have the ability to help them out you see what i'm getting
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at here so this is an article from the national post uh by a brian uh brian passive fume uh dated
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june 9th 2023 it's a four minute read so bear with me folks if you can catch my drift and i'll leave
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this in the description if you used to follow at your own time ladies and gentlemen right so uh here we go
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lack of domestic defense industry bureaucracy hindering canada's military procurement procurement
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says pbo right reliance on foreign equipment and doubling up of purchasing authority is hamstringing
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defense obligations can is continued reliance on foreign military procurement as well as an
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inefficient doubling up of purchasing authority is hamstringing canada's ability to meet defense
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targets right says parliamentary budget watchdog parliamentary budget officer eve girot
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remember him when he said the carbon tax isn't a good thing and these rebates mean fuck all
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anyway i'm digressing appeared before the house national defense committee friday morning to provide
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insight on recent reports on canada's defense policy including his office's october 2022 report on
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life cycle costs of canada's canada's surface combatants ships shipbuilding initiative in their
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june 2022 analysis of canada's attempts to meet nato's two percent defense spending benchmark
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and its 2022 examination of planned capital spending under canada's strong secure
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engaged defense policy basically the strong secure engaged policy is no better than
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the 1987 and 1994 defense white paper report anyway regarding the latter report girot said he
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determined that canadian government was underspending with respect to what is outlined
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in current defense policy the tune of eight billion over four years the government at that point
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when we realized that report had revised its capital expenditures to make up for that shortfall
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he told committee pbo analyst christopher penny told the committee that in 2022-23 saw capital
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spending shortfalls of 1.5 billion compared to what was outlined in strong secure engaged with
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shortfalls this fiscal year of around 4 billion there was over 10 billion planned spending under
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sse for 2023-2024 and only 6 billion was asked for the estimates penny said responding to questions from
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liberal committee member darren fisher on how the best to streamline military procurement
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gero said canada smaller than average homegrown defense production base is having a negative
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impact particularly when paired with policies favoring procurement from local vendors
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right there at a disadvantage especially we insist on having canadian made major equipment and the
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government for obvious reasons often insist on domestic production he said see that's reliance
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all can industry can do it but then they can't decide which is the better one
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that severely limits the competitive base on which the government can tap
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gero said there's a definite value in having domestic defense production capacity
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but warned against policies that make canada overly reliant on local production when more cost-efficient
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options exist overseas okay there are options the thing is our procurement board limits those options
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okay and our government too by by some strange coincidence oh yes of course oh yes
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right it's difficult to meet all constraints if you also add domestic production he said canada has a
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small industrial defense base so if any government insists on domestic production it's very difficult
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to have sound competition that will also drive down costs right the only way to square that circle
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he said is to make commitments to source domestically with benchmarks to allow for foreign procurement
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if the numbers don't make prudent prudent financial sense exactly you don't let competition thrive
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that's what happens you won't let foreign investment inside canada oh who knew but then that would be a
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breach of domestic production capacity policy and that would leave canada exposed to foreign suppliers
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in case of a war outbreak that would require significant ramp up of production he said well
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shit or get off the pot what do you say that juggling competition with speed
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expectancy and financial prudence your role said requires a delicate balancing act doing cost and value
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for money while also ensuring as had been the government's policy for some time now to develop a
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domestic defense capability he said okay it's one thing to procure major equipment from abroad
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but in the case of war it doesn't guarantee us that we'll be the first to be served
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we'd probably be at the back of the queue numerous means exist to improve defense procurement in
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canada he said but explained that both specialization and single point accountability are key
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streamlining procurement jerome said could be achieved by ensuing single points
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and both contact and accountability in canada's defense procurement freight work
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so needless to say ladies and gentlemen i'll leave this article in the description for you to follow
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and it's pretty self-explanatory too many bean counters too many bureaucrats everyone has
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wants to have their piece of the pie but they don't want to take any time to get the ingredients to
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bake it properly right no fucking bureaucrats board what does the board say who gives a fuck about the
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board what do the people say stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook twitter gap telegram
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anyhow you're back ladies and gentlemen episode 352 the crusty canuck podcast canada's ongoing slack
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defense i'm your host crusty canuck and i'm going to play that radio advert that my new friends out
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the mic wasn't even on almost i can hear the playback and the feedback here as i'm uh trying
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to get this sorted out ladies and gentlemen but uh it's all to you wonderful people so procurement
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a joke in this country it is to me people sit in their hands worrying about getting paid and i had
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a little conversation with an ex-sailor there a few years back who was telling me an interesting
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story and i actually wrote some of these notes down i try to remember it as best i could
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um he was out of the navy got a job with a procurement in halifax and to make a long story
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short basically it took him two weeks to decide what kind of tires to buy for a pickup truck or
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i think three or four of them anyway took about two weeks to decide that now how long does it take you
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and i if we have to replace tires in our vehicle right it took me about a day okay and even if i had
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let's say 10 pickup trucks to look after or 20 pickup trucks look after if i was a fleet manager
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i would make a pretty simple decision depending on what kind of contract you have with the locals
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whatever tire store or tire venue okay but then again you got to be practical and pragmatic because
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you're dealing with other people's money taxpayers money so when it comes to the bidding process i just
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read you an example in the national post about that now you get these clowns and procurement boards
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can't decide what to fucking do so if it takes two weeks to decide what kind of tires to get for
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10 20 trucks you know what's that going to tell you about requiring 10 or 20 tanks or 10 or 10 or 20
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apcs or infantry fighting vehicles or 10 or 20 ships now i had a video queued up here from scott
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taylor from respira corps he did an excellent story on the naval procurement issue and i'll leave that in
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my description for you to follow at least i'll just do kind of time constraints what have you
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but uh it's we don't have the time to fuck around and gamble anymore okay and if it means you have
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to cut some services so be it and i'm not saying certain social programs but there's a lot of top
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heavy brass that sits in ottawa right now on the civilian side and on the defense side and in order to cut
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costs and bring money to to the table maybe we should cut from the top because in order to save
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the milk you got to cut the cream use the cream for other things like dessert toppings for your coffee
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or tea or make a wonderful souffle of thumb thought and that way you save the milk you save
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what you milk for what you harvest right but we got too much cream there's too much goddamn cream
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around we're not getting the results we need okay so you my wonderful especially my canadian audience
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okay talk to your mps when it comes to that the federal mps when it comes to defense spending and
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procurement how come you're not fighting hard enough to get this done how come you're not
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fighting hard enough and saying to the procurement minister shit or get off the pot what's going on
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what's the delay if we can give so many millions and billions away to one little nation to google
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pew pew and bang bang why can't we go pew pew and bang bang here here huh why can't we what are you
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afraid of right because there's that everlasting reliance on our friends to the south now hats off
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to my american friends hats off to my american friends that i served with overseas and hats off to
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the average american out there just goes to work minds his or her business wants to raise their
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family live in peace and security and freedom just like us canucks do okay
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but see down there that peace and security and freedom is defended it's still defended up here
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you just got a big bowl and steal to get it and in some cases you have to go and protest the capital
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city to be heard is you know getting out here ladies and gentlemen now before i get pissed off and
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angry here i do have a couple of articles i will include in the description just to back up my point
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on my points in regards to procurement process and how many times the cretchen government canceled a
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program which cost the canadian taxpayers 500 million bucks back in 1993 right and then to turn
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around and try to buy it again kind of like what we're doing with this the f-35 fighter jet it was
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canceled before now it's being brought back so it's costing us more money so which is it okay now there's
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so-called experts who might have spent some time in the air cadets who think they know exactly what
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to do when it comes to getting a fighter jet right they would say the f-16 right or the f-15 f-15 is an
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excellent jet right i think i got to see him fly overseas fuck they're nasty they're beautiful too
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even the a-10 warthog is a beautiful bird okay but what we need for canada is efficiency they say the
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f-35 can do it i would say the f-18a could probably do it the new f-18 but it's just a matter of them
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procuring it and who they want to help out they can't broaden their horizons they can't think
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outside the box because they're afraid to plus some lobbyists have their little investments there too
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again they have government money which is taxpayers money right so when it comes to defense
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procurement ladies gentlemen i suggest my canadian audience out there you really hammer your mps about
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it and make him discuss it in parliament because i actually had a conversation with an ex-conservative
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mp there a few months back with my friends and northern perspective and i asked him a question
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about the defense thing and his excuse was now get this i've heard this before okay well my constituents
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never really talked about it really really really when they'd see those coffins coming down the
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highway of heroes they never talked about it at all never really never
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so if you're an mp and you're watching this podcast listen to this podcast don't hand me your
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bullshit excuses especially to a guy that spent 20 years in the service i had to do 20 years to get my
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pension all you guys got to do is six see there's a point right there too when it's coming from the top
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cut from the top cut from the top to find these find these these issues can be solved and if there's
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a money allotted to buy something and get off your ass and buy something it's that simple
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right who cares what the board thinks think about the sailors are going to be on that ship
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think about the drivers and crew crew commanders going to be driving that tank
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okay think about the infantry soldier that's me trying out that new rifle or trying out that new
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site system right think about that those are the guys you have to ask and talk to not some board
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member who sits in charlottetown on on the holidays and eats pastries or some board member sits in
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halifax can't decide what kind of fucking tires to buy you talk to the men and women are going to be
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using this equipment it's that simple but no no we got to take a simple thing and elongate it and spend
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more money towards that to find a consultant to consult the consultants to give us a final answer
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ah gotcha gotcha gee i was way off stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook twitter
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and there's no prejudice here ladies and gentlemen i don't tolerate any racial bs i don't tolerate any
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religious bs just try to be people and try to be good and civil to each other to the best of your
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ability like i said i'll have links in this description in my description where you can follow
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where you can see an example of the defense procurement process in this country for the
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better part of 30 years not to mention what happened before i remember in 1987 brian marooney
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come out with a defense paper report 1987 defense report how to upgrade this they're going to get
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new submarines uh nuclear submarines that were going to help our arctic big time the dew line was still
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decent it was still up to certain standards but now it's it's null and void null and void and we hear
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carney talk about defense issues he basically stole pierre pauliev's lines when it comes to
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making the arctic uh more reinforced and putting bases up there that was pauliev's plan so the man's
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a plagiarist to be honest with you so he can't be trusted who knows what he's talking to the king
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about today he's in he's in england today he had a little video with keir starmer meeting and talking
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about things and he was with macron and talking about things how much money they can rip off for people
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you know how it works right you know the whole woke elite right and they're bullshit but hey who
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am i i'm digressing but uh when it comes to procuring for this country we've got to use common
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sense and do what's practical what is going to work for canada not what's going to work for this group
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here or this company here what's going to work for the men and women that'll be using this equipment
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to defend this nation right it's that simple ladies and gentlemen what if a major city in this
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country said they wanted to uh budget cut and save money and instead of buying their fire department
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proper fire hoses what would happen if they say hey we got a canadian distributor that can give you
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all these garden hoses wouldn't that be fantastic you can still do your job you got to work really
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harder and nothing's guaranteed but hey you're a canadian company and they make garden hoses
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i wonder how many firefighters would uh tolerate that shit okay think about that so if you know a
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firefighter who wouldn't tolerate that kind of procurement bullshit then why is it okay for
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our men and women in uniform to settle for our procurement bullshit something to think about folks
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anyhow i've been crusty canuck on this beautiful 17th of march saint patrick's day my friends out there
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i had a terrible irish accent unless to say i guess everyone has a little bit of irish in them
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right or if they want to or you know but uh what i will tell my family roots uh basically i looked up
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my family name and there's roots in ireland and scotland so i got the best of both worlds
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and a little bit of english too so i guess you can say i'm british that's why i carry the union jack
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around there in my show because i like britain i think britain's pretty cool and but you know i love
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canada too and i like my american friends as well so hey it's all good ladies and gentlemen
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anyhow happy saint patrick's day out there to everybody uh keep your wits about you do what
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you can have during these trying times weather is pretty good in this area so um just be just be
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sensible it's kind of slippery on the road so don't be too anxious to get someplace fast
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and just help your neighbors out if someone's shy a few bucks give them a hand give yourself a hand and
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be good to yourselves too ladies and gentlemen right and i should be on probably another another
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episode probably this wednesday evening so you know keep your uh keep those chins up keep calm
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keep cool keep collected and do your best to be good to people and uh like i always say ladies
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gentlemen humanity and merit wins the day take care i'll see you next time bye for now
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hit it sweetheart because i am hard you will not like me
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this has been another episode of the crusty canuck podcast stay sane and thank you for listening
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from western canada this is the crusty canuck podcast