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Trying To Keep U.S. In Dark

Posted on Wednesday, October 18 at 16:28 by jensonj
"However, the Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence currently do not have a capability to handle national information effectively on their operational networks. This hampers their ability to plan Canadian participation in coalitions, and their ability to participate in those coalitions when decisions involving national sovereignty must be made. The world’s major military powers view the ability to protect national information as an important strategic capability. Canada has chosen to collaborate with the U.S. on its overall information protection needs but still requires the capability to protect Canadian-eyes-only information." The proposed changes could prove useful for Canada in disputes over Arctic sovereignty, said Denis Stairs, a political scientist at Dalhousie University in Halifax who specializes in Canada-U.S. relations. http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/535091.html [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on October 19, 2006]

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  1. by jensonj
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:21 am
    U.S. Agents posing as Canadian nationals are probably writing the program?

    If not, do we really believe the U.S. Government doesn’t already know every move Canada’s Government makes and / or is contemplating to do?


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  2. by boflaade
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:41 am
    ...do we really believe the U.S. Government doesn’t already know every move Canada’s Government makes and / or is contemplating to do?<<

    They just have to ask Harper. Actualy, they just have to ask Harper if he conformed to their plans.



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  3. by RPW
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:20 am
    Under the terms of NAFTA, the US <B>MUST</B> write the program, based on previous military purchases (of obsolete equipment) by Canada from the latter ...........<p>---<br>"Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

  4. by rearguard
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:12 am
    The US military wrote our super-secure census software, and also supplied all the super-secure census hardware, so why not also supply all the super-secure military network sofware and hardware as well? <br><br> More importantly, under NAFTA it's against the Charter of <strike>Human</strike>Corporate Rights and Freedoms to exclude US corporations from the bids. We can't discriminate or Canada could be arrested and imprisoned for <strike>human</strike>corporate rights violations.

  5. by Ed Deak
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:44 pm
    Theoretically, so called "defence" business is not covered by NAFTA, but here we have a pimp government negotiating the elimination of Canada into the NAU, PR agencies called "think tanks" the elimination of the Canadian Dollar, and a military dying to put on US uniforms and make bigger bangs with US weapons and yet they try to pretend that they want ":secrecy" and "Arctic sovereingty".

    All the US government has to do with this super secret computer system is to hire a few highschool hackers and break it wide open.

    These people are getting either crazier, or more crooked by the day, dishing out this kind of slop to the faithful, who
    lap it up happily.

    Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

  6. by avatar Jacob
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:54 pm
    They should have started this prior to the census.

  7. by avatar SphinxMontreal
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:58 pm
    If there is anybody who is being kept in the dark, it's the average Canadian citizen.

  8. by boflaade
    Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:59 pm
    If there is anybody who is being kept in the dark, it's the average Canadian citizen<<

    Bingo! We are told what we are suppose to know and that is very little. Harper makes no bones about it. He figures we know so little of what the government (& friends) are doing, that we have no reason to not vote him back in. As most Canadians can claim, "ignorance is bliss".

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  9. by Brett Mann
    Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:10 am
    Are reflexive anti-military attitudes and a corrosive distrust of our own government (made up of fellow Canadians, after all) leading us to criticise even good moves by the military, like this one? Does anyone think that it helps the cause of Canadian military independence to attack a small move in the right direction?

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  10. by rearguard
    Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:09 am
    Brett, the fact that there is a fully open "shared" military network that allows the USG to see virtually right inside the office of the PM, ought make you at least a little cynical?

    The $4 million "fix" is just more of the same old bullshit.

    If I were PM, I'd keep the $4 million for a rainy day, and spend $40 on a good set of wire cutters.



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