Sea invasion of Canada? The time is NOW!!!Follow

Hah! The moment we have been waiting for! The fools, lowering their defences just as we make ready our strike! All wombat strike teams to your ships! Operation Zulu is about to commence!

(in related news, Russian heroin and chinese counterfit good prices are about to drop through the floor.)

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/05/14/Canada-to-mothball-half-of-coastal-fleet/UPI-96061273879323/
Canada to mothball half of coastal fleet

OTTAWA, May 14 (UPI) -- Canada's navy says money problems have forced it to mothball half its fleet of vessels used to patrol the country's Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

The navy said it would leave several of the ships at dock in Halifax, Nova Scotia and at Esquimalt, British Columbia, and strip them of their crews because it lacks the funding to operate them all, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday.

"Upon close examination of resources and priorities, this was deemed necessary to safeguard and optimize our operational capability, both now and in the future," navy spokeswoman Denise LaViolette said.

The navy would continue to modernize its other ships and refit its submarines with "stable and predictable" funding from the federal government, LaViolette said.

The decision about the coast patrol vessels would leave three of the 12-ship fleet on each coast. The others would not be scrapped, the navy said, but put in long-term storage. When asked about potential invasion from militaristic Washingtonians in heavily armed rowboats, LaViolette was dismissive of their chances, claiming that the mighty Canadian Beaver would take up the slack in coastal defense.

"Never mess with the Dam Beavers.", LaViolette said.

How much funding it would take to keep the whole fleet active or how much would be saved by the reduction was not announced by the navy, the CBC reported.

The rest of the world was just as surprised as you.

They need to defend Lake Erie from those upstart Ohioans.

Not really.

I do remember spending some time aboard a Canadian destroyer up in Pictou, Nova Scotia back around 1984... but they had a bar on their ship, so I don't really remember much about it.

Really? Our Navy had an impact there? I thought our infantry just hitched a ride with the Brits on that one.

We had the 3rd largest navy in the world for WW2. After the war we followed the general worldwide trend and downsized military operations. We were very good at killing subs.

Edited, May 16th 2010 10:07am by Xsarus

I've worked with the Chanuks Navy, their fleet is fairly old and outdated but only in comparison to the major world Navy's.

Half of Brazilian and Chilean navy's for example is made up of old Royal Navy ships.

Unless we thought the invading force would make better neighbors. Personally, I'd like to see more dutch people on this continent.

And teh fact that Canada are in NATO and thus the US and other member nations would be obliged to leap to their defence.

Navy is more of an offensive force than a defensive one. We don't attack other nations so our navy is really just for coast guard duties these days. As was mentioned earlier our navy was quite good when we were attacking other nations.

We're more than capable of defending ourselves via air and ground forces in the very unlikely event of an invasion.

Isn't Russkia making advances into your Arctic territories? Pray it's not just posturing.

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