Fighter Jets needed to protect Canadian sovereignty.

Vincent J. Curtis

19 July 21

RE: Trudeau should listen to Canadians and cancel fighter purchase plan.  Op-ed by Tamara Lorincz, who is a Ph.D. candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfred Laurier University and fellow with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 19 July 21.

It’s Ph.D. candidates in “International Affairs” like Tamara Lorincz that make science majors feel superior.  In science, you have to deal with data and completing theories, and opinion polls don’t count.  In “International Relations” the opinions of the usual gang of idiots – this gang being too old to suffer the consequences of their folly – whose wisdom Trudeau is to follow.  The proposition being not to replace Canada’s forty year old CF-18 fighter jets with newly constructed airframes.

Young Tamara never asked herself, “If Canada isn’t flying combat aircraft in our airspace, who will?”  My guess is, first the United States, and then Russia.  Already Russia routinely challenges our response by flying T-95 Bear bombers close to our airspace.  Without a response, Russia could violate our sovereignty.

And without a response from us, our partner in NORAD would chase them away – by flying through Canadian airspace.  You would think a Ph.D. candidate in “International Affairs” would think of this, but apparently not.  You’d think Tamara would be aware of Canada’s responsibilities under NORAD and NATO, but maybe she skipped those courses.

The point of the Fighter Jet Replacement Project isn’t to do anything new; it is to replace aircraft at the end of their service lives with new construction that is safe to fly.  That’s isn’t provocative in any way, to anybody.

Keep STEM free from artsy poisons!

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