Ha, ha, ha, ha!!! Funniest thing I have heard all month. Warn a guy before writing stuff like that.Transonic wrote: No, it wouldn't be. If Alberta had a strong aerospace company it would receive the same treatment.
Zaibatsu wrote: Never has there ever been a province of such perpetual whiners. They forget that BC pays and doesn't complain and forget that Manitoba takes in their fantasies of western separatism.
Why don't they have an aerospace industry? Because they have no motivation or foresight to do so. Why would they when they have oil. The closest thing they have to one is Viking and it's from BC.
Ha, ha, ha, ha!! Second funniest thing I've heard this month. The hypocrisy is so delightful because it's like you're not even aware you are doing it.
Now this is actually pertinent to the OP's question. What a great way for the Hair of the North to extract himself from a sole sourced contract explicitly designed to make sure that the Air Force never receives any new planes... spend all the budget on a second aircraft type of which you buy so few as to be completely ineffective and prevent any other purchase of further planes, receive no economic/industrial offset and not have to hold your open and fair competition for a new plane (the full white elephant program). All while making it Boeing's fault and garnering votes in QB. It's politically smart and if it gets us, as tax payers, out of buying sole sourced, non-bid for Super Hornets and actually results in a proper competition and bid for new fighters then I'm all for it. 18 Super Hornets is hardly worth their time and effort so Boeing loses nothing if we don't buy them. If they hobble BBD even a little bit, it buys Boeing the time they desperately need to design a whole new 737 replacement and still have some market left to sell it in when competing against the world in general. It's all a game. Crush all competitors, no matter how large or small... let no one compete against you ever. It's the capitalist way. As for Boeing, they'll huff and they'll puff but nothing will happen other than a bunch of lawyers on both sides of the border will make a lot of money.trey kule wrote: Prime Minister sock puppet actually claimed at one point Boeing was suing the Canadian Government...something he walked back on. This is a trade dispute that he has made a political issue.
Makes him look the champion of Canada. Gets Quebec votes. And diverts attention away from his current tax grab..
If Canada does not get F18s, what is the alternative? The F35s he fought against?
Or maybe we could provide our military with rainbow coloured c172s, flown only by women, alphabet genders or visable minorities. Diversity is so important