CFB VALCARTIER, Que. -- Prime Minister Paul Martin took some of the responsibility for the underfunded state of Canada's military on Monday as he visited with troops near Quebec City.
Martin had just finished lunch with a group of soldiers at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier when he said he hopes to invest more money in troops and equipment.
"We have to turn around our dwindling investment which, I admit, I have a certain responsibility for causing,'' Martin said.
"Your superiors here are just too polite to say it,'' he added, causing scattered laughter among the soldiers.
As Finance Minister Paul Martin presided over the deepest cut to the military budget and now he wants to "turn around our dwindling investment." I am all for "you make a mess, you clean it up," but the real question is; what exactly are you going to do about it? And please, don’t say that you need another commission to study the issue.
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I'll say we need to do something. I caught a story following the military exercises in our far north this last august on CBC last night. You probably heard about the two soldiers who got lost overnight a few months back. Well that was just one of the many sad stories of that exercise. Lets see; Sea King breakdown, say no more; Helicopter with magnetic navigation that canhardly operate so near the megnetic north; our destroyer have thinner hulls that the americans AND THE DANES! So they have to steer causiously around those ice bergs...
And we think we could keep the Danes or anybody else out of our north? Its only a matter of time till someone really tests us.
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