I admire your fiscal prudence which is somewhatIt cost 4 Million$ to train a fighter pilot from scratch.
Take an experienced one, you cut the cost down to 500 000$.
of a rare commodity in government.
For perspective, Dalton McGuinty happily blew a BILLION
dollars, moving a gas plant near Toronto, to try to buy
some votes.
A BILLION dollars divided by your $3.5M foreign pilot
delta would have trained 400 Canadian fighter pilots.
My understanding is that Canada trains around ten (10)
fighter pilots a year. That tiny expenditure by Dalton
would have paid for 40 years worth of Canadian fighter
pilots, assuming a zero interest rate (cough).
Keep in mind that just the province of Ontario - not
any other province, not the feds - is carrying a THREE
HUNDRED BILLION DOLLAR debt.
Just sayin'.