Someone starts talking about dumping military infrastructure that serves no military purposes any longer.
Then your humble e-scribbler reminds everyone not to worry since bases like Goose bay are far more important for the political pork value than their military value.
And right on cue:
First one politician launches into a defence of the pork base, while a new politician – who actually campaigned against the base at one point in his political life – now staunchly defends the pork he and his new political friends are pouring into the base.
Stuff like paving the runway at the base.
Again.
Paving?
Paving?
Hmmm.
Seems that the value of paving the runway depends on who is running the asphalt spreader.
In 2005, when the federal Liberal government paved the runway, one of Peter Penashue’s new political friends – the Pavement Putin of the Permafrost – had this to say:
We got $10 million in an announcement to put new paving on the runways up there, but I can tell you, $10 million of asphalt on the runway is not going to bring the allies back.
Asphalt, like shit, takes on a sweeter aroma for some people if they and their friends are spreading it.
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