Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) ATHABASKAN alongside Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Lieutenant (N) Jarrod David Franais
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) ATHABASKAN alongside Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Lieutenant (N) Jarrod David Franais
“Canada’s last destroyer will be taken out of service in the spring”
Darn - thought this was talking about Trudeau. I must have been dreaming.
Now is our chance.
Canada stands defenseless!
INVADE AND CONQUER!!!!!
I think they also cancelled the building of their replacement supply ship so this means Canada’s navy is a just a dedicated coast guard.
Do they need the money for more social services and refugee resettlement? Another Western country preparing itself for submission?
Curious if they really want to be reliant on us if Hillary wins.
“Canada’s warships still have the capability to protect themselves from direct, incoming air threats but will have to rely mainly on U.S. ships to deal with missiles and aircraft at longer ranges.”
Nice of US taxpayers to take care of this for them.
Americans: Doing the jobs Canadians won't do.
The spousal unit is Canadian. She daily gets a ration of $#@! from her Northern friends on Facebook or on the phone about what idiots Americans are for having a candidate like Trump.
I now know why there is such passion from them. They know he is a pay to play when it comes to out-sourcing the US military for other country’s defence.
By the way, I’d be going “short” on the weird navy ship green paint if I was in that market.
Freeloaders.
That rust bucket was launched in 1970. 46 years old. Recent history include equipment malfunctions, cracks in the hull, sailors being arrested for drug and gun offenses, sexual assaults, fuel spills in Halifax Harbor, “the flagship vessel in the navy’s East Coast fleet”, so says the RCN.
Canada is nothing but a target rich environment without Uncle Sam protecting their socialist asses.
I've caught some crap from canucks telling us how we should vote.
Now here's the second largest country in the world with untold natural resources and they depend on "allies" to protect them. If that's not a fourth or fifth rate country then what is? And they have the audacity to tell us what we should do!
If you up in the [not so great] White North get your wishes and Madam Benghazi takes over, you'd probably better start learning russian or chinese, because your calls for help will go to voicemail - ask Chris Stevens.
Why do they need a Navy when they can depend on the US to defend them 100%.
Canada’s once significant “Navy” now reduced to a coast guard.... just another example of why Trump is so right that most NATO members are not pulling their weight!!
The “2%” of GDP that NATO members are supposed to devote to defense spending (only 5 members, one of which is the USA, actually do so) would provide a fairly minimal NATO force, since the personnel “overhead” in NATO countries is so high.
All these 50 RINO so-called “national security experts” are so mad at Trump for challenging the current vitality and adequacy of NATO, but it is the disastrous course of the socialist libs that has brought NATO to this pass.
Trump is simply demanding that everyone recognize the reality, that NATO is on an unsustainable course and the USA has been bearing unreasonable burdens for far too long.
I remember when the bombing campaign in Libya started up, and it was revealed that other NATO members could not even operate in the campaign without US support and logistics. NATO is a dishonest shell game, and Trump is exposing its current status.
“but will have to rely mainly on U.S. ships to deal with missiles and aircraft at longer ranges.”
Trump is right...make them pay if they want our protection....why should the American taxpayer foot the bill so that Canada can provide cradle to grave social services to their citizens, while our seniors struggle to pay for prescription drugs...it’s wrong and Trump needs to call them out.
Unfortunately, they probably won’t even think about building one as long as Baby Trudeau is Prime Minister.
Have they been listening to Trump about paying their own way?
Now that Pierre’s son is PM perhaps the New York Nation Guard should attack Ottawa and make Canada our 51st State. Surrender would be announced in about 24 hours.
We have to kick Obammy’s arse out of the White Hut first and make damned certain that the criminal Hillary hasn’t been elected by American idiot voters.