{"id":3750,"date":"2010-05-14T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2010-05-14T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:59:26","slug":"defence-minister-denies-that-the-navy-to-be-cut-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/defence-minister-denies-that-the-navy-to-be-cut-by-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence minister denies that the Navy to be cut by half"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada’s Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay<\/a> claims that the following operational changes to Canada’s naval forces do not constitute a serious cut:<\/p>\n

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The directive was sent to maritime forces on the west and east coasts, as well as to senior officers in charge of naval reservists.<\/p>\n

The letter says:<\/p>\n

– The fleet of Kingston-class maritime coastal defence vessels will be reduced to six ships from 12.<\/p>\n

– Three frigates, HMCS Montreal<\/em>, St John’s<\/em> and Vancouver<\/em>, will now be conducting domestic and continental missions to a “limited degree.”<\/p>\n

– Combat systems on HMCS Toronto<\/em> and HMCS Ottawa<\/em>, as well as on HMCS Athabaskan<\/em>, will be “minimally supported to enable safe to navigate sensors and communications only.”<\/p>\n

– A key weapon system on board the Protecteur-class supply ships designed to destroy incoming missiles “will not be supported.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jedi Master MacKay is attempting a mind trick: “these are not the defence cuts you’re looking for”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canada’s Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay claims that the following operational changes to Canada’s naval forces do not constitute a serious cut: The directive was sent to maritime forces on the west and east coasts, as well as to senior officers in charge of naval reservists. The letter says: – The fleet of Kingston-class […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,5],"tags":[52,156,30],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-military","tag-absurd","tag-fail","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Yu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}