I try not to think about it.
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Can I ask you guys why is it that a first world country, in fact the second largest country in the world has a smaller and less capable submarine force then countries like Iran and Vietnam?
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There are a number of reasons. Canadian citizens enjoy a quality of life that far exceeds most nations, certainly Iran and Vietnam. That quality costs money and there are only so many ways to cut the money pie.
Second, we are neighbors and friends with a country with the most powerful military on earth. So why bother spending billions on subs when the Americans have a capable force. What are we going to do? Watch them?
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We hear all the warnings that russia is putting more subs to sea, and I bet that the canadian government has absolutely no clue how many of them are sitting in our arctic waters right now.
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No but I bet the Americans do.
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I don't know about the rest of my countrymen but I for one am suffering buyers remorse.
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I couldn't agree more. Dumb idea concocted by politicians with no clue.
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We need to upgrade our submarine force. We need to do like Australia did and put the word out there that we are looking.
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Good idea but there's that money thing again. We are a big country but with only 36,000,000 people. USA has 10 times that many.
I don't think we will ever see that happen. Besides the cost there are treaties in place that could prevent that.
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Under the 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement, the US had the right to block the sale of submarine nuclear reactors by the United Kingdom to any third party (i.e. Canada), and under a 1959 agreement between the US and Canada the US had the right to block the purchase of submarine nuclear reactors by Canada from any third party (i.e. the United Kingdom or France).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada-class_submarine
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The number one reason why the Americans would not want Canadian SSNs under the Arctic ice is that for safety reasons they would have to disclose the positions of their subs. And that is not going to happen.