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Media coverage: “Titanic Blunder”
April 12, 2013
The latest report on military procurement, co-produced by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, was released on April 11, 2013. Titanic Blunder: Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships on course for disaster, was written by Michael Byers, Professor of Political Science at the University of British Colombia and Stewart Webb, Visiting Research Fellow at […]
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Procurement of Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships Contains Titanic Blunder, Report Finds
April 11, 2013
A new report examining the government’s plans to build Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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Op-ed: Passing the buck on search-and-rescue
March 22, 2013
Michael Byers and Stewart Webb The National Post March 20, 2013 Nobody likes a buck-passer. But that’s what Defence Minister Peter MacKay resembled last week, when asked about the seven-year delay in replacing Canada’s ancient fleet of fixed-wing search-and-rescue aircraft. “I will express to you … no small degree of frustration that we have not […]
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Staples on Canadian-Libyan trade push
March 19, 2013
Newly released documents show that the Conservative government launched a trade push just before the end of the war in Libya in 2011 “to ensure a return on our engagement and investment,” Lee Berthiaume reported this week (“Canada made trade push as Gadhafi fled,” Ottawa Citizen, March 19, 2013). The documents have raised old questions […]
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