You do recognise Kevin Page was a Liberal stooge don't you? Or is that now a fact we have forgotten. This whole debate is threatened by distortions, distortions that have yet to be clarified. I am all for keeping the pressure up, but I refuse to draw conclusions with out all the evidence.
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Aleithia
Cathrine, this debate has been shaped. Canada DID sign on the dotted line ordering 65 planes for 9 billion dollars. There was a 40% contingency added to the base price to come to that figure--to accommodate price over-runs. You think it is a simple thing to project numbers to 2030? What we are measuring in this debate has been changed. We have added maintenance, which was never part of the 9 billion purchase, We have added ordinances, also not accounted for; we have added upgrades--granted an inevitability, but that wasn't part of the measurement. There is no deception saying you can buy this truck for 30,000.00 in an advertisement, and driving off the lot at 40,000.00 once all the extras and upgrades are added. But then to figure in the extra 60,000.00 in maintenance you will spend over the next 30 years keeping your truck on the road is something vastly different.
What has happened in this debate is that no one is keeping his eye on the marble in this shell game.
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