Canadian Military Exercises: not just an old oxymoron joke.
According to CBC television news this evening, the largest ever navy, air force and army exercise to “boost Canadian sovereignty” in the Canadian north has three tasks on the order paper:
a) Locate a fictional crashed satellite
b) Find and escort 4 unauthorized scientists (also looking for the satellite) from the area.
c) Rescue a stranded cruise ship
Well, and wait for parts to come in to repair the Sea King. (“Not an exercise. I repeat, this is not an exercise”)
On his recent visit to the northern territories, Prime Minister Paul Martin said exercises like Narwhal are important “to make sure that the rest of the world understands that this is Canadian territory.”
Unauthorized debris and unarmed civilians take note.
Somebody tell me whats going on with the government is this a point making the military so weak that no one would call upon them in a crisis so they could play the role we have no equipment or people to do anything thus don’t ask?
Seriously, when’s the last time the military rescued a cruise ship? I’m actually kind of curious.