This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The federal Liberal government says it plans to award a multibillion-dollar contract for hundreds of light armoured vehicles to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada without holding a competition, while also giving the company in London, Ont., a $650-million loan.
The government says the new LAVs are different from the ones GDLS has been building for Saudi Arabia as part of a $15-billion deal that has caused the company and federal government endless grief because of the Saudi kingdom’s abysmal human-rights record.It also says holding a competition was not in the public’s interest because the new vehicles are largely the same as those already owned by the Canadian Forces.
globepolitics Drop the writ...
globepolitics Isn’t this how the Brison fiasco started?
globepolitics Last minute handouts to saddle the next government with. All contracts that are connected to corruption should be thrown out. All companies involved in corruption should have all their Canadian assets seized and sold. The executives charged. Thing is, who’d run the Globe & Mail?
globepolitics the new light armoured vehicles are for civilian control whether it be in Hatia, Libya or Canada.
PhilippeLagasse globepolitics Made for a Toronto winter!
globepolitics Samir_Madani