General Rick Hillier, the Canadian Chief of Defense Staff, in a speech to the Conference of Defense Associations on Friday referred to the 1990′s as a “decade of darkness” for the Canadian Armed Forces. His remarks received warm applause from pretty much everyone in attendance except Liberal Defense critic Denis Coderre.
Coderre responded by accusing Hillier of being a Conservative ‘prop’. “I’m disappointed,” he said. “It’s too much. Talking about the darkness, 10 years of darkness. I think it’s unacceptable.”
That would be almost funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. Fact is that Hillier spoke the truth. Coderre later tried to justify the deep cuts that so deeply hurt the military during those years as necessary to fight the deficit.
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The Toronto Star today carries a story about what is being referred to as ‘the Doomsday Vault’. It’s a project which will see a high tech vault built into a cavern on the Norweigan island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. The cavern will be located 7 feet above where the water line would come if the worse case scenario of both ice caps melting would bring the sea level.
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