Crash Landing
The PM’s only anti-Mulroney promise he followed through on seems to have returned to haunt him
One of Jean Chr?tien’s first acts as Prime Minister was to axe a contract for what he called “Cadillac” helicopters for the military ? a decision that keeps coming back to haunt him.
Chr?tien and his Liberals spent the 1993 election campaign complaining about wasteful Tory spending. And one of their favourite targets was a $4.8 billion contract signed by Brian Mulroney’s government to buy 50 EH-101 helicopters from an Anglo-Italian consortium.
Our few contributions to the war effort are crashing down – for no other reason than to screw Mulroney’s wise decision to upgrade.
While Chretien keeps blabbing about the UN resolution 24912, and his military keeps shrinking and crashing, old proud soldiers of Canada spin in their graves.
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