After running out of Canadians to give government funding to, the liberal-left opted for pretend people. Ghosts. Happily for the Liberals, they could apply their ubiquitous benevolent leftist government “sponsorship” (—wink!) 
tag to the phantoms, with nary a roll of the ghostly eyes.
Auditor-General Sheila Fraser never examined what was in the Liberals’ brownies, or in their coffee cups. I think she should have. There are so many boondoggles and examples of Liberal government corruption and mismanagement in Sheila Fraser’s report, released yesterday, that it’s hard to know where to start and where to end, nor what to blame it all on, because mere incompetence and a culture of corruption and fraud and deceit and entitlement don’t cut it for me. Not even their Fabian socialism could explain it away, which is something I can almost always rely on.
But I think this is a fine place to start, and really, Miss Fraser didn’t touch it, possibly because it’s not as much an accounting thing as a police matter.
treason
noun
1. Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.
Through their reign of power, the Liberals seemed to have run a pretend military recruiting program, particularly after 9/11, to sucker us into thinking they were “pro military”, “pro-Canada”, and that they were intent on beefing up our pretend national defences —after they themselves knowingly and purposely nearly bankrupted our national defences in the 90s—despite huge and growing surpluses due to overtaxation.
Not enough troops for Afghanistan AND Darfur, and/or, say, a simple matter like defending our nation and its families against a massive terrorist attack or series of attacks across our country like on 9/11 in the U.S.? Well what a shocker. Even in the most recent past, the Canadian Forces has turned out only 700 trained soldiers since 2002, despite processing 20,000 applicants, according to Fraser’s report.
20,000 applied, but only 700 got through the bureaucracy. That’s not mere mismanagement and incompetence, people—it seems to me they’ve got to have been trying not to grow the military.
All those brave men and women want to fight for Canada and freedom and democracy—after 9/11, and after we entered the Afghanistan battle, knowing what they were in for—twenty thousand of them— and only 700 get processed through the liberal-left government’s famous liberal-left bureaucracy? Less than 1 out of 20? Get serious. That’s not mere mismanagement. A massive lack of proper military funding only starts to explain it.
Then there was the purchase of those pretend naval submarines before that (otherwise known as the purchase of used piles of junk that are still sitting in a repair shop, unable to help defend our country). Then there was the Team Chretien Liberal helicopter boondoggles before that (we’re still waiting for them to help defend our country). And on and on.
Here’s more news in the long array of related examples (hat tip: Ross M.):
$39M spent on phantom pilots: report
By SUN MEDIA
OTTAWA—Canada’s air force has spent $39 million to train phantom pilots in the past three years, with more costs to come, the auditor general has found.
In a progress report on previously audited issues released yesterday, Sheila Fraser says Canadians paid to train 145 pilots that don’t exist because of fixed-rate contract obligations with a training facility.
She then warns that the military will continue paying for such unfilled training flights until it can fix systemic problems at the tail end of the NATO Flying Training in Canada program.
At the heart of the issue is that the military doesn’t have enough spots in subsequent training—when pilots either go to jet-fighter school or training for helicopter and other aircraft. Because of the bottleneck, it simply doesn’t enroll as many students into the NATO program as it is paying for.
“We estimate that losses since the end of December 2002 amount to about $39 million and will continue to grow as the current training slowdown continues,” Fraser’s report states.
Today in the House of Commons, Liberals and NDPers will vote on whether or not to keep our troops in Afghanistan for an extra two paltry years, and they’re actually thinking about it —it’s not an obvious outcome. I think perhaps the liberals should simply abstain due to a conflict of interest. They don’t believe Canada should win or help win the war on terror or any threat to our nation, nor that we should help spread freedom and democracy through the world. Maybe their “Ethics” “Czar” Bernard Shapiro could look into it.
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