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2013.
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On 1 October 2012 Canada's foreign minister addressed the United Nations
general assembly. Embedded in an otherwise bland text were several sharp
jabs at the UN, notably concerning the self-absorption of the organization's
internal reform processes and the inadequacy of its response to humanitarian
crises such as that engulfing Syria.1
These criticisms, predictably echoed in
the right wing of the Canadian media, soon evoked ripostes whose burden
was that the minister seemed woefully, perhaps willfully, ignorant of the
organization he was criticizing: UN reform is a process for which western
governments, including Canada's, had pressed for years; and it was some
member-states, not the UN as such, that were hesitant over Syria.2
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121248
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2013.
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Looking at the process that the Conservative government of Stephen Harper
tried to use to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging CF-18 Hornet fleet
with 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, it is hard
to disagree with Andrew Coyne's assessment that the acquisition program
was "a fiasco from top to bottom, combining lapses of professional ethics,
ministerial responsibility and democratic accountability into one spectacular
illustration of how completely our system of government has gone to hell."1
For the evolution of Canada's participation in the F-35 program-from
the first memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the Liberal
government of Jean Chrétien on 2 January 1998 to the so-called "reset" of
the program in December 2012-readily fits the nouns the Canadian media
so commonly used to characterize the F-35 acquisition: fiasco, debacle, mess,
scandal, and shambles in English, or fiasco, scandale, incompétence, gâchis
(mess), gouffre financier ("money pit") in French.
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