Rearranging The Deck Chairs

21 Replies to “Rearranging The Deck Chairs”

1. Shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. What a shit show! Let’s have the indigenous manage offshore issues!

2. “have less than five years left until they reach their end of service life.”
   bla bla bla. any weerrrrrrrd on a decent budget to get the CCG up to snuff?
   oh. havent lined up the grift pockets yet.
   aka ‘bizznizz as usual’, er make that ‘use you all'[to suck tax dollars]

3. This is just accounting so the CCG budget can get counted in the % contribution to defense as requested required by PDJT.

   1. Bingo, Ringo!

      RNrn

   2. Exactly.

   3. Peter I was going to post the same thing. The Carney Liberals will do anything to “increase” the defense budget.

      1. Yes. I expect they’re equally scrupulous about only buying “increasible” sexdolls.

   4. Yup. Just like military pensions and IT services to DND. Oh, and NGOs working certain contracts.

   5. DINGDINGDINGDINGDING!!! We have a winnah!

      1. Redundant clapping at this point to what Peter said.
         What next?
         Add the operational costs of the sub At West Edmonton Mall?
         I bet they could amp up the number by adding in the cost of defending/protecting former “people” who oversaw politics and medicine in this benighted country.

4. This should have been done long ago. Eventually, Canada is going to have to contend with Chinese naval and Chinese mining operations up towards the Northwest Passage. They will show up in Canadian sovereign waters without permission or authority and start exploiting resources. That’s how they roll. And, unless someone like the Canadian Coast Guard has icebreakers and support ships up in that region, no one is going to be there to detect or remove them.

   China has no legal claim on any Arctic land/resources. However, in the last decade they have begun referring to themselves as a “Near-Arctic State.” This is foreshadowing their intentions.

   1. “Eventually, Canada is going to have to contend with Chinese naval and Chinese mining operations up towards the Northwest Passage” You are not serious. In what world would Canada do anything more than whine to the UN, gently about their paymasters in Beijing? In this context, contend with means get out of the way while the grown ups in the US deal with it. Shithole.

   2. China has a number of icebreakers (a dozen or so?) that regularly transit through the canadian Islands. Very likely there are a few up there right now.
      Yeah – uninvited
      And – unannounced

5. Never mind,when Can Ahh Duh needs to enforce their sovereignty over the Arctic,they will rent to buy a Russian Icebreaker.
   For our current beasties cannot navigate the NorthWest Passage,without refuelling.
   We have no ice hardened tankers and no land based fuelling station enroute..
   Elbows Up.

6. Putin’s icebreaker fleet are quaking in their deck shoes.

7. However, “On the West Coast of Canada, Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards is the primary shipyard building vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) under the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS). Seaspan is constructing large non-combat vessels, including the new Multi-Purpose Icebreakers and Offshore Oceanographic Science Vessels, while smaller shipyards in the country handle the construction of smaller vessels for the CCG.”
   … and…”Canada’s new polar icebreakers are being built by two shipyards under the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS): Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards is building a heavy polar icebreaker, and Chantier Davie Canada Inc. is building another.”

   1. Don’t they need permission from the indigenous Canadians before breaking any of their ice? Do they have an ice-acknowledgement statement?

   2. If they are anything like the garbage Irving turned out, they’ll break down before breaking any ice.

8. The article seemed to imply that moving the Coast Guard from DFO to DOD would be an improvement. Other than acquiring tampon dispensers in “men’s” heads, how so?

9. The article is in the Liberal red star, they are required by the terms of their subsidy arrangement to write fawning pieces about the Liberal Government, not unlike CBC Pravda.

   1. Well, they’re fawning like Bambi!