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New Ministers of National Defence in Canada
David Pratt, Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton, has just been
appointed Minister of National Defence. In a break from usual practice he has been appointed to the department for which he had the oversight committee, the Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs. http://www.davidpratt.net/bio_temp.htm Albina Guarnieri, Member of Parliament for Mississauga East, has been appointed Associate Minister of National Defence and Minister of State (Civil Preparedness). This is her first cabinet post also. Anne McLellan, Member of Parliament for Edmonton West, is appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. She was variously Minister of Justice and Minister of Health in the Chrétien ministry. http://www.annemclellan.ca/about.html -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message ...
David Pratt, Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton, has just been appointed Minister of National Defence. Martin is supposedly for reconstituting* the Canadian Armed Forces. Is this considered a step in that direction, and have any general-specifics been laid out as of yet? * My term. -- Regards, Michael P. Reed |
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Michael P. Reed wrote:
"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message ... David Pratt, Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton, has just been appointed Minister of National Defence. Martin is supposedly for reconstituting* the Canadian Armed Forces. Is this considered a step in that direction, and have any general-specifics been laid out as of yet? Slow down, he was sworn in only today. :^) Carter |
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"Carter Lee" wrote in message ... Slow down, he was sworn in only today. :^) Carter + Christmas break, they be back Jan/Feb, the an election could be called before April. |
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Martin today says new replacements for Sea Pigs
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d769xt3_photo0 "Carter Lee" wrote in message ... Michael P. Reed wrote: "Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message ... David Pratt, Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton, has just been appointed Minister of National Defence. Martin is supposedly for reconstituting* the Canadian Armed Forces. Is this considered a step in that direction, and have any general-specifics been laid out as of yet? Slow down, he was sworn in only today. :^) Carter |
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of course the picture (in the yahoo article) is of a serviceable RAF AEW Sea
King. ....i couldn't resist. dewey "Jack" wrote in message ... Martin today says new replacements for Sea Pigs http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d769xt3_photo0 "Carter Lee" wrote in message ... Michael P. Reed wrote: "Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message ... David Pratt, Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton, has just been appointed Minister of National Defence. Martin is supposedly for reconstituting* the Canadian Armed Forces. Is this considered a step in that direction, and have any general-specifics been laid out as of yet? Slow down, he was sworn in only today. :^) Carter |
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I get to do the parade next week! yay............yeah
"Jack" wrote in message ... Martin today says new replacements for Sea Pigs http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...a_afp/03121221 0851_kd769xt3_photo0 "Carter Lee" wrote in message ... Michael P. Reed wrote: "Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message ... David Pratt, Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton, has just been appointed Minister of National Defence. Martin is supposedly for reconstituting* the Canadian Armed Forces. Is this considered a step in that direction, and have any general-specifics been laid out as of yet? Slow down, he was sworn in only today. :^) Carter |
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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. Sure, there were justified cuts throughout the post-WW2 era (front line soldiers/sailors...etc), but nothing prepared us for the onslaught of cuts in the 90's. It's one thing to say we went from +150,000 personnel to 90,000, but to go down to around 50,000 (of which 7000 were unusable due to lack of training, sickness, retirement...etc), from almost a 100,000 and retain our core capabilities with an increased operations tempo is (was) near impossible. dewey (glass half empty until proven otherwise) " Well we already know the CAF are likely to lose their heavy armo(u)r. I expect we'll see another round of cuts disguised as a reorganization of some sort. As I've said before, the CAF is evolving into a national gendarmerie aimed squarely at peacekeeping, foreign and domestic. Any residual military capabilities will be purely coincidental. IBM |
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