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Originally posted by chris vickery
And another thing, what about the "G Wagens"? At the fear of sounding pro-American, I stilll think we should have looked a bit closer to home and perhaps bought Humvees instead. Unfortunately our government has continually decided that it is in our best interest to contract our defence work out to foreign governments and to purchase the most obscure and antiquated crap we can buy for the money.
Obviously our leaders have forgotten the 750,000 mvs we built right here at home during the Second World War, not to mention all the ships, planes etc etc.
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Let's face it, the CMP was built by American-owned subsidiaries, during a time when furniture companies were building aircraft (Mosquito). There was a world war going on, and it was all hands on deck.
These days the industrial base is no longer present in countries like Canada, and one has to revert to importing vehicles, aircraft and naval vessels. The Mercedes G-wagen is the best jeep-type vehicle one can buy for its money today, the Hummer really is a medium sized truck. I'm sure if the Commonwealth was contracting for half a million vehicles again, any manufacturer would gladly set up a new factory within Canada's borders.
And it works the other way round too - just ask Stewart Loy about his job.
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