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The federal government is considering its options for giving up six of Canada’s Challenger jets because they apparently are spending more time flying empty than actually doing work on official business. A news agency revealed that these jets will reach the limit of their life expectancy in 2014, hence keeping them in service after that will be a bigger investment that than they will be worthwhile.
Some senior sources in the government unofficially speculated that these jets were used way less in the reign of the current Conservative government compared to the Liberals. It was also revealed that these jets are often flying empty just so the pilots could keep up their flying skills. The options for retiring these jets usually involve selling them, scrapping them, housing them in a museum or lending them to another department, for example.
A spokesperson of the Defense Minister Peter MacKay, Jay Paxton, mentioned that he would only say that officially his department is “taking the necessary steps to improve efficiency and effectiveness” to “ensure the best use of taxpayer dollars.” Paxton further added that “In fact, our government has successfully reduced ministerial use of the Challenger by over 80 per cent since we took office.”
Some industry analysts have shared their suspicions that this Challenger fleet cut might be a backhanded way of preparing the Department of National Defense for deeper spending cuts. Previously, when the government asked for deeper cuts, DND has put the Challengers at the top of the list, followed by the Snowbirds.
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