NO To $19 Billion For Fighter Jets! Invest in a Just Recovery & a Green New Deal

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Tue, 2020-07-28 19:13
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NDPP
NO To $19 Billion For Fighter Jets! Invest in a Just Recovery & a Green New Deal

No to $19 Billion For Fighter Jets - Yes to Peace and Canadian Prosperity

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-new-fighter-jets-invest-in-a-just-r...

"Click 'Start Writing' to submit a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of National Defence Sajjan, Minister of Foreign Affairs Champagne and MPs, to demand that the Canadian Federal government cancel the $19 Billion competition for 88 new fighter jets and instead invest in a just recovery and a green new deal."

 

This thread continues from this earlier one:

https://rabble.ca/babble/national-news/indications-canada-may-buy-overbu...

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Sat, 2020-08-01 07:32
NDPP

Deadline to Submit Bids to Build Canada's Next Fighter Jets Lands Today

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-fighter-jets-f35-boeing-saab-loc...

"...Today is the submission deadline for the three aerospace firms bidding for the right to build Canada's next fighter jets. Public Services and Procurement Canada confirmed it has received three proposals - one each from US defence giants Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and one from Swedish aircraft maker Saab. The Liberal government plans to buy 88 new fighter jets. It will have to start paying for them [$19 billion] just as the navy is expected to start receiving the first of its new frigates [estimated $65 billion]. Both bills will come due at a time when the federal government will start digging itself out of pandemic debt..."

 

NO, Canada Doesn't Need To Spend $19 Billion on Fighter Jets

https://twitter.com/TheTyee/status/1286783216884396032

"Spending $19 b on fighter jets only makes sense based on a vision of Canadian foreign policy that includes fighting in future US and NATO wars, a vision that's in need of a reset.."

 But won't be because Canadians won't get off their asses or lift a finger to stop it. (Do we even have a Canadian peace movement worthy of the name anymore?) And  the coming presidency of Joe Biden will have big war-plans that will definitely include shaking down American vassal-states like Canada to pay more. You know the drill Canuckleheads. Bend over touch your toes and say Ah/ouch for that murderous old psycho you never refuse Uncle Sam.

 

 

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Mon, 2020-08-10 15:11
NDPP

Lockheed Martin Promises $16.9b Investment To Canadian Economy With F-35s

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lockheed-martin-f35-canadian-economy-1....

"The Liberals, prior to being elected in 2015, promised not to buy the F-35 and instead purchase a cheaper aircraft and plow the savings into the navy. The Trudeau government eventually relented and allowed the Lockheed Martin into the competition and even bowed to pressure from the Trump administration to make sure the playing field was level in terms of evaluation of the economic benefits.

Critics have often complained that the F-35 - a stealth fighter with advanced sensing technology - will be too expensive to maintain over the long term. At the moment, it costs $35,000 per hour to fly, according to figures released Thursday by the company..."

No F-35s or any other jets, warships etc! We need the money for Canadians not vassalage tributes to US imperialist warplans.

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Tue, 2021-07-20 10:28
NDPP

Canada's Plan to Buy New Fighter Jets Silent on $19.1 Billion in Sustainment Costs [MUST READ!]

https://buff.ly/3BmDPeb

"...A blank cheque approach that focuses on the sticker cost of a fighter jet but not its sustainment coasts may be related to the Goverment of Canada's stated intention to spend more than half-a-trillion dollars on the military over the next 20 years..."

   see also:

#1

https://rabble.ca/babble/canadian-politics/scrapping-fighter-jets-could-...

The very idea of spending so very much to increase the likelihood of war is so outlandish as to beggar the imagination. Surely Canadians must and will refuse this madness by the Trudeau regime on behalf of the military-industrial complex? Surely a strong and decisive peace-movement is needed now more than ever before?

https://buff.ly/3z78WbI

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Fri, 2021-08-06 14:03
NDPP

Did Canadian warplanes bring peace and human rights to Libya?

https://buff.ly/3ColKwL

On the 10th anniversary of Canada's bombing missions over Libya, a public debate on the use of Canada's fighter jets is needed, writes Brent Patterson.

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Sun, 2021-08-08 15:43
lagatta4

I'm against a single cent for fighter planes and always have been. But why on earth do you have to insult us?

 

 

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Tue, 2021-11-16 13:58
NDPP

No Fighter Jets! Nov 22

http://hamiltoncoalitiontostopthewar.ca/2021/11/12/no-fighter-jets-nov-22]

"November 22 marks the date on which the Canadian Parliament reconvenes. In its coming session, Parliament is set to buy new fighter jets (sticker price $19b[lifetime cost $77 b]

And new warships (sticker price $82b [lifetime cost $286 b]

These largest procurements in Canadian military history effectively mean that Canada won't be able to afford the costs to transform to a green economy or adequately fund social programs, infrastructure renewal, or restitution to native peoples.

  • No New Fighter Jets!
  • No New Warships!
  • NO TO NATO!
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Thu, 2021-12-09 09:48
NDPP

CFPI: The F-35 - Seats One Kills Thousands

https://mailchi.mp/foreignpolicy.ca/anti-blackness-7850214?e=6ff4df419b

"The 2015 Liberal election platform boldly proclaimed: We will not buy the F-35 stealth fighter-bombers.' Since guaranteeing they would not purchase the F-35, the Liberals have quietly moved to ensure its acquisition in a fait accompli and now look set to buy 33% more of these warplanes than even Harper's Conservatives planned.

It is time for opposition parties that say they oppose the F-35 to start raising questions. Please take 1 minute to send a letter to all NDP MPs asking them to call on the PBO to assess the full lifecycle cost of the planned warplane purchase and request government release its estimate of the greenhouse gases likely to be emitted by these jets.

Also, yesterday the Ottawa Citizen published an op-ed I submitted on behalf of the CFPI calling on the opposition to challenge the warplane purchase. You can read it here..."

Canada is now girding its loins on the people's precious dime badly needed elsewhere, to defend US hegemony and imperialism. NO F-35 fighter-bomber or any other arms/warplane purchase!

[email protected]

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Mon, 2021-12-20 17:30
NDPP

Patterson: Will Fighter Jets Be An Issue in the Ontario Elections in June?

https://rabble.ca/labour/will-fighter-jets-be-an-issue-in-the-ontario-el...

"It is widely believed that the F-35 will win because of NATO's interoperability requirements favouring American aircraft.

That choice remains to be made by two southern Ontario MPs, federal Procurement Minister Filomena Tassi, and Defence Minister Anita Anand. Their recommendations will go to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau..."

Or vice versa.

NO to America's Wars! No To the F-35!

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Mon, 2022-03-14 15:21
NDPP

Coming soon to a bloated warmongering 'defence' budget near you...

Germany to buy F-35 Fighter Jets in Military Spending Spree

https://www.voanews.com/a/germany-to-buy-f-35-fighter-jets-in-military-s...

"Germany plans to buy up to 35 US-made F-35 fighter jets and 15 Eurofighter jets, a parliamentary source said Monday, as part of a major push to modernize the armed forces in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine..."

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Mon, 2022-03-14 16:14
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bekayne

NDPP wrote:

Coming soon to a bloated warmongering 'defence' budget near you...

Germany to buy F-35 Fighter Jets in Military Spending Spree

https://www.voanews.com/a/germany-to-buy-f-35-fighter-jets-in-military-s...

"Germany plans to buy up to 35 US-made F-35 fighter jets and 15 Eurofighter jets, a parliamentary source said Monday, as part of a major push to modernize the armed forces in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine..."


Did you actually think that Russia invading Ukraine would result in arms spending going down? Really?

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