tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5761498836067676504.post1968748536685347457..comments2023-11-02T08:19:49.006-07:00Comments on CAW Workers Voice Of Reason: Rae And Wherry: Seperated At Birth?paulsstuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01813949388254801232noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5761498836067676504.post-76807824280093615252012-04-05T09:34:15.886-07:002012-04-05T09:34:15.886-07:00Great info Gabby.Great info Gabby.paulsstuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01813949388254801232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5761498836067676504.post-89449694539523127882012-04-05T07:08:57.261-07:002012-04-05T07:08:57.261-07:00Furthermore … the opposition continues to ask for ...Furthermore … the opposition continues to ask for a competitive process to be held, because they claim the choice of the F-35s never involved such a process. Wrong!<br /><br />Again, from the AG’s Report:<br />2.21 <b>In October 2001, the United States Department of Defense selected Lockheed Martin as the winner of a design competition held between two major industry consortia</b>”<br />In other words, there was a competitive/tendering process, which the opposition denies ever took place, albeit held by the US.<br /><br />AND<br />2.36 ... in our view, sound management practices would have required that National Defence assure itself that the F-35 was a suitable, if not preferable, aircraft before further committing Canada and Canadian industry to the JSF Program. We therefore examined departmental activities in relation to identifying operational requirements and assessing how available options would meet those requirements.<br /><br />2.37 <b>These activities took place in 2005, when National Defence began an analysis of potential aircraft to replace the CF-18s.</b> It defined preliminary operational requirements for a replacement and assessed five candidate aircraft against them, based in part on information obtained from site visits to various aircraft manufacturers. <b>Four of these candidates were existing aircraft; the fifth, the F-35, was still being developed</b>. In June 2006, National Defence summarized this options analysis in the Operational Requirements Concept Document (ORCD). <b>It concluded with a strong preference for the F-35</b>, stating, “It is not only the aircraft that best meets Canadian Forces’ requirements, with the longest life expectancy, but also is the most affordable.”<br /><br />SO … other options were indeed looked at but discarded.<br />-- Gabby in QCGabby in QChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04971550227834952159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5761498836067676504.post-30139666295506401342012-04-05T06:50:35.296-07:002012-04-05T06:50:35.296-07:00Some history from the AG's Report ...
http://w...Some history from the AG's Report ...<br />http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_oag_201204_02_e_36466.html <br />“2.20 National Defence signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the first phase of the JSF Program, concept demonstration, in December 1997. …<br />National Defence felt its participation provided the chance to work with allies in developing a new fighter jet as well as opportunities for Canadian companies to be part of the design and eventual production of an estimated 3,100 aircraft (<b>if Canada decided to purchase the aircraft</b>).<br /><br />2.21 <b>In October 2001, the United States Department of Defense selected Lockheed Martin as the winner of a design competition held between two major industry consortia</b>. National Defence signed the MOU for the second phase, system development and demonstration, in February 2002. …<br />According to National Defence, securing industrial benefits for Canadian companies continued to be a driving motivation for participation.<br /><br />2.22 In 2006, the JSF Program entered its third phase: production, sustainment, and follow-on development. …<br /><br />2.23 In November 2006, Industry Canada signed industrial participation memoranda of understanding with the JSF Program’s prime contractors, the US-based companies that will manufacture the jets and engines ..."<br /><br />In other words, there have been THREE Memoranda of Understanding, two under the Liberals and the latest under the Conservatives. Those did not commit to a purchase but rather to three steps in the final production of the F-35s, to wit:<br />1. concept demonstration<br />2. system development and demonstration<br />3. production, sustainment, and follow-on development<br /><br />Canada has been participating in all three phases because there are advantages to Canada's aerospace industry, although those advantages were not necessarily guaranteed:<br />“2.27 For the F-35 ... Industrial benefits were not guaranteed; rather, companies from partner countries were, and still are, eligible to obtain contracts, provided that the companies meet the “best value” criteria (including cost, schedule, and quality) and <b>that the country buys the F-35 as a partner in the JSF Program.</b> <br />2.30 … By 2006, National Defence estimated that Canadian companies had received 150 contracts valued at approximately CAN$157 million. …”<br /><br />SO … there has been thus far no actual contract to purchase the F-35s but there has been an understanding that Canada would indeed be purchasing the F-35s, given the industrial benefits connected to that plane.<br />-- Gabby in QCGabby in QChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04971550227834952159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5761498836067676504.post-62129042532535464712012-04-04T20:56:53.116-07:002012-04-04T20:56:53.116-07:00Instead of making an ass of himself all the time R...Instead of making an ass of himself all the time Rea, should read the history of his new party, he would then know exactly whose signitures are on what and in this case it is a liberal one.Pissedoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14799369572979165203noreply@blogger.com