Awards

• Winner of John Lyman Book Award: Canadian Naval and Maritime History 2011.
• Winner of John Lyman Prize for Canadian Naval and Maritime History, North American Society for Oceanic History 2011 (Canada)

Overview

In 1993, Canada’s Liberal Party cancelled an order to replace the Sea King maritime helicopter. The Liberals claimed the Tory plan was too expensive, but the cancellation itself actually cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The incident drew public attention to the waste in Canada’s defence spending and to the under-equipped state of its military. Aaron Plamondon ties the bungled attempts to replace the Sea King – before and since 1993 – to the evolution of the weapons procurement process in Canada since Confederation. He reveals that partisan politics, rather than a desire to increase the military’s capabilities, has driven the nation’s policy-makers.

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The Politics of Procurement is well written, painstakingly researched, and definitely not to be taken lightly. -- Katherine Doucet Canadian Military Journal, Vol 11, No 2, Spring 2011

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Aaron Plamondon teaches Canadian and military history at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University. He is also a National Fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.

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