Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[brihard]

It's a pretty high bar that MAG might not feel it can clear (without knowing the text of the decision):

R. v. Bellusci, 2012 SCC 44, [2012] 2 S.C.R. 509

Yup- a very high bar indeed. And without seeing the written decision, tough to gauge. But the offences with which these three are charged are absolutely heinous, so I could see the “injustice” argument being made.

 

[Edward Campbell]

Brutal. Its such an easy win to buy trucks. Its a scandal that its taken this long and those responsible should be held accountable. If we cant even buy trucks in a decade + for the regs and reserves, how can we trust these people to buy advanced armament and equipment?

The CF can have, quickly, whatever cabinet decides it wants the CF to have - remember when we got Leopard 2 tanks and C-17s? There is nothing illegal or even difficult about sole-source, directed contracts. It is solely and simply a matter of political will.

 

[Navy_Pete]

The CF can have, quickly, whatever cabinet decides it wants the CF to have - remember when we got Leopard 2 tanks and C-17s? There is nothing illegal or even difficult about sole-source, directed contracts. It is solely and simply a matter of political will.

I really wish they would apply the national security exemption more option, it's the normal procurement requirements and terms of international treaties around normal government procurement that add in a lot of delays and prescriptive procurement requirements that dont' really make sense for a lot of defence procurements.

 

[YZT580]

I really wish they would apply the national security exemption more option, it's the normal procurement requirements and terms of international treaties around normal government procurement that add in a lot of delays and prescriptive procurement requirements that dont' really make sense for a lot of defence procurements.

we are talking about a pickup truck or suv right? What is there to Canadianize? Leave the radio slot blank for installation at the base and get a custom paint job. Easy/peasy.

 

[Navy_Pete]

we are talking about a pickup truck or suv right? What is there to Canadianize? Leave the radio slot blank for installation at the base and get a custom paint job. Easy/peasy.

You don't need to Canadianize anything, it's just the size of the contract and dollar value means all kinds of international trade agreements apply, which adds a lot of process. The dollar values also adds a lot of internal processes, which is likely most of the delay, but defence doesn't have the same risk/complexity scaling with money compared to any other department so the normal GoC processes get way to onerous for simple procurements with big price tags, just due to scope and volume.

Edit: For a bit of context, was talking to someone at the executive level another department many years ago that was nervous about the size and dollar value of their project, and realized it was something like $5M total. I had just signed a $3Mish monthly invoice for a project a few months before that as a newly OFP qualified two ringer working as a deputy PM and no one batted an eye, or even paid any real attention because it was too small.