It isn’t just the Right that is self-parodying these days.
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I don’t see how this helps, unless we not going to spend that money or spend less of the money. If we spend that money elsewhere, then its 100% useless to me. We obviously do not have the ability to spend this money here or else we would already be doing it.
That ability is increasing, and as a policy change it will definitely increase it. My concern is that military procurement has been a mess in Canada for years, and the government is generally not particularly good at managing these mega projects. A mega project in military procurement is going to be a ripe opportunity for some pork barrel. However, it is not as if military procurement in the US is not stuffed to the gills with absurdly overpriced boondoggles - all things being equal I guess I would rather buy $300 hammers from Bombardier than Raytheon.
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Coucou France is over here 
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Trump will be out of office way, way before this will come to fruition. I would still want them to do this anyway to future proof. What will probably happen is we will spend a few billion on the concept and then scrap the idea and raise/create a tax/debt in order to fund the wasted money.
I actually know someone in military procurement and can confirm that they feel exactly the same way. They would be forced to buy something from a “supplier” that does not specialize in cold weather equipment, and then have to spend another 25% of purchase price to winterize it.
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