Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s much-ballyhooed plan to build a naval facility at Nanisivik shrunk dramatically last month, when Department of National Defence officials told regulators about big cutbacks to the project.
From a year-round base, the facility will be a summer-only base where troops can use satellite phones rather than a new telecommunications system.
But hey, don't you go thinking that this won't have state-of-the-art stuff to project Canadian power into the great frigid north!
They will retain a “large flat area” for use as a helicopter landing pad, but it will meet DND’s code requirements only if “budget permits.”
Large flat areas don't come cheap, eh? Well, if budget permits they'll have that fancy flat area.
Did the Russians go sane while I wasn't looking to justify Canada's retreat from their own north?
