Who's on who's payroll

KPMG is to do a cost study for the Conservatives for a paltry 643,535 Canadian Taxpayer Dollars. The information and costing is already available from the Pentagon as proven in the following article from the Ottawa Citizen..... so why do we need a study by KPMG .... it is needed to justify the lies we have been told by both DND and the Conservatives .... 

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/kpmg-picked-crunch-defence-departments-stealth-fighter-numbers-132856704.html

The government insisted that the program would cost between $14.7 billion and $16 billion, but auditor general Michael Ferguson and the Parliamentary budget officer disputed those figures.

If you don't remember correctly let me remind you .... that is for 65 aircraft

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/03/30/u-s-outlines-cost-of-f-35-that-canada-and-others-are-purchasing/

Finally, as a point of interest, the Average Procurement Unit Cost (APUC) is a reflection of the cost Canada would pay. In this SAR it is $137.41 for 2012. Last year it was $132.81. While this figure is an average of the 3 variants, it provides a useful benchmark.

Now take a close look at what the base unit price per F-35 is according to the Pentagon for 2012 and you will see that it is NOT 75 million as the Harper Regime has insisted it would cost. 137.41 million is the average price of the three variants, Canada is buying the bottom of the line F-35 A which is a "conventional take-off and landing craft..... NO vertical take-off and landing charicteristics as many of you mistakenly believe and none of our parliamentarians have taken the time to advise you..... even if it costs 30 million less than the 137.41 million shown in the Pentagon's price list it will escalate by the time we take ownership of the first aircraft in 2015.

Lets not forget that the prices shown are for the “unit recurring flyaway cost” (URFC) of the aircraft and do not reflect maintenance and operating costs.

“We are doing everything we can to drive down the cost of the joint strike fighter,” Kendall told committee members.

He noted the program is still in testing, with about 20 percent of that process complete.
“We are finding design issues as we go through the test program that we have to correct,” he acknowledged. “So there are some cost adjustments associated with that.”

Huh! Still in testing and design flaws that will up the ante so what can KPMG really tell us.

Oh yes and let us not forget that DND wants to purchase drones as well but you can buy 4 drones for the price of one F-35

Buy Canadian is not on the Harper Regimes Agenda

 

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/shot-arrow-storied-aircraft-suggested-alternative-f-35s-215919834.html

 

 

Documents obtained by the Global News program “The West Block” indicate an update to the storied CF-105 Avro Arrow was put forward as an alternative to the purchase of F-35 stealth fighter jets.

 

Sound silly .... well it is not .... the aircraft trashed by a former Conservative is still a viable alternative apparently .....

 

The plan to build an updated Arrow in Canada instead of buying into an international deal for a fleet of F-35s was originally put before the Harper Conservatives in 2010 by a company called Bourdeau Industries, which has offices in the U.K. and Canada.

The proposal, which was updated in 2012, suggested the plane could fly 20,000 feet higher than the F-35, soar twice as fast and would cost less.

Better yet it would employ Canadians however that is not Harpers plan.....


The Arrow project would also create a made-in-Canada plane and an industry that would add thousands of jobs and billions of dollars to the Canadian economy, the proposal's author wrote.


Let us not forget that the primary reason "Deif the Theif" dumped the Arrow was out of fear of retrobution by the Americans