Scudrunners

That guy.  Anyone else would have gone to jail:

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/201 ... finds.html

[quote]The judge said he could not accept Mulroney’s testimony that
his acceptance of at least $225,000 in cash was an error in judgment.

Rather, it was an attempt to hide the transactions, Oliphant said.

Oliphant noted that Mulroney accepted “cash-stuffed envelopes from
Mr. Schreiber on three separate occasions,” did not make a record of
the payments, did not deposit the money in a bank or disclose the
payments when given an opportunity to do so later.[/quote]

Oh, Canada.

Nah, lots of politicians could have pulled that off.

I just can't decide between Brian and Paul as my (least?)/favorite prime sinister. Those two certainly stand out as far as being unapologetic about it.

Chinooks are bad ass on a whole nother level, also faster

[quote author=CD link=topic=4955.msg12784#msg12784 date=1480253169]
Not junked... back in 1991, the Mulroney government sold the CH-147 Chinook helicopter fleet to the Dutch.
[/quote]


It was pretty embarrassing in the early days of Canada's involvement in Afghanistan to have our troops being carted around by the Dutch in Chinooks that we sold them.




There's a pretty talented local photographer that happened to be at the airport the same day I was, he got some great photos on the helicopters:


[img width=500 height=280]https://s18.postimg.org/c58r2ijvd/15194 ... 7376_o.jpg[/img]


[img width=500 height=280]https://s18.postimg.org/pao98mdqx/15129 ... 6129_o.jpg[/img]

Peace, dude:
[img width=500 height=333]https://s18.postimg.org/9dphbwlcp/15196 ... 7347_o.jpg[/img]


[img width=500 height=281]https://s18.postimg.org/yxrric6qh/15235 ... 8161_o.jpg[/img]