Carter Lee wrote:

Dewey wrote:

agreed...

we've seen and heard all this rhetoric before, and it will get worse before
getting better.

Chretien was no friend to the military. Personally, I'm glad he is history.

I can't think of a single PM, who in a space of 10 years, almost
single-handily brought the military to it's knees.

I can, Trudeau and it took him less than ten years.

Actually it was Trudeau who started it.

I believe the credit properly goes to Louis St-Laurent, whose
government commissioned John Glassco (who recommended integration)
which was implemented, along with unification on Pearson's watch
(after Diefenbaker's "Turn in your pencil stub to get a new one"
period) then crowned by Trudeau with his "Defence in the 70's" White
Paper. Of these, I think only Pearson, a veteran of the CEF and the
RFC, understood the institution with which he was meddling.
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Andrew Chaplin
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