Ken Dryden, MP

[French Rage]

Looks like Ken is pretty safe holding onto his riding: http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/riding/210/

[jtwcornell91]

[quote French Rage]Looks like Ken is pretty safe holding onto his riding: http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/riding/210/[/quote]

Shouldn't posts about wrestling go in the "Other Sports" section?  ::nut:: :-}

[Ben Rocky '04]

Not so much in the cabinet any more, I'd assume.

[KeithK]

Fortunately. :-D

[Ben Rocky '04]

Oh no, the new conservative government in Canada could curtail spending and that might threaten overall funding for the JSF project.  Those poor military-industrial engineers might be without jobs ::uhoh::

Just kidding, I know that Harper has promised to increase defense spending, and quick google searching reveals what Canada isn't yet in on the project.  :-P

[Trotsky]

Anybody get a reading on what Ken's voting record is?  Is he centrist or strongly liberal?

[Robb]

[quote Ben Rocky 04]Oh no, the new conservative government in Canada could curtail spending and that might threaten overall funding for the JSF project.  Those poor military-industrial engineers might be without jobs ::uhoh::

Just kidding, I know that Harper has promised to increase defense spending, and quick google searching reveals what Canada isn't yet in on the project.  :-P[/quote]
Hahahahahaha.  As one of those poor engineers who spent the last 3 years suckling at th...er, I mean working my butt off on JSF, I can assure you that Canada's funding or lack thereof is important in their minds only.  JSF will easily spend $40B in development (it's already projected to be $30B and they haven't even flown yet) over about a 10 year period.  At 2000 normal work-hours per year, that's $2M per hour.  Every hour.  For 10 years.  Canada contributed $150M to the development - thanks for those two weeks, Canada, I remember them well.  Those were my favorite two weeks on the project - we all watched hockey and said 'eh' a lot.  You hosers!