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Michael Byers
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Smart Defence
A Plan for Rebuilding Canada’s Military Download 4.76 MB60 pages Most of Canada’s major military hardware is old, degraded, unreliable and often unavailable. With a…
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Payback Time?
What the Internationalization of Climate Litigation Could Mean for Canadian Oil and Gas Companies Download 2.91 MB64 pages This report explores scenarios in which the…
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One Dead Pilot
Single Engine F-35 a Bad Choice for Canada’s Arctic Download 1.39 MB34 pages This report responds to the Harper government’s continued openness to the F-35…
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The Plane That Ate the Canadian Military
Life-Cycle Cost of F-35 Fleet Could Reach $126 Billion Download 754.47 KB 32 pages The cost of F-35s first became an issue in July 2010…
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Blank Cheque
National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy Puts Canadians at Risk Download 2.28 MB40 pages In 2010, the federal government committed itself to reinvigorating Canada’s shipbuilding industry. The…
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Stuck in a Rut
Harper Government Overrides Canadian Army, Insists on Buying Outdated Equipment Download 3.27 MB40 pages This report questions the government’s planned procurement of 108 new heavily…
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Canada’s submarine fleet never worked: it’s time to stop ignoring the problem
Most Canadians know the sad story of Canada’s second-hand submarines. Purchased from Britain in 1998 for a suspiciously low price, the four vessels have spent…
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That Sinking Feeling
Canada’s Submarine Program Springs a Leak Download 2.18 MB58 pages The Royal Canadian Navy projects that its (second-hand) Victoria-class submarine fleet will reach the end…
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Titanic Blunder
Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships on Course for Disaster Download 2.01 MB50 pages This report demonstrates that the federal government is headed for a disaster with their plans…
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A government blunder teaches us how not to buy helicopters
The botched procurement of F-35 stealth fighter jets has attracted much attention, and rightly so at $40-billion and counting. But the F-35s are not the…
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“The Worst Procurement in the History of Canada”
Solving the Maritime Helicopter Crisis Download 3.51 MB 36 pages 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the entry into service of Canada’s Sea King helicopters,…
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Search and Replace
The Case for a Made-in-Canada Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Fleet Download 3.15 MB40 pages This report, released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre…
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