Archive d'auteurs: Philippe Lagassé

Published in Macleans.ca, February 3, 2012 Canada’s most monarchist government in decades has just dealt a serious blow to the Canadian Crown. In an effort to quickly enact changes regarding royal succession, the government has introduced a bill that undermines the concept of a truly independent Canadian Crown, the foundation of Canadian sovereignty.… Read More

Published in the Ottawa Citizen, December 6, 2012 It’s been a rough year for Canadian defence procurement. This past spring, the Auditor General lambasted the defence department’s lack of due diligence in selecting the F-35 to replace the air force’s aging CF-18 fighters. A few months later, the acquisition of new army trucks was cancelled when it became c… Read More

By James W.J. Bowden and Philippe Lagassé L’article complet a été publié dans l’Ottawa Citizen, 4 décembre, 2012. We learned this week that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their first child. The news was greeted with the usual mix of republican derision, monarchist fawning and celebrity gossiping. In governments across the C… Read More

The Harper government recently announced that the National Fighter Procurement Secretariat (NFPS) will be looking at various options to replace Canada’s aging CF-18s. This comes at a time when the news about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the plane that the Department of National Defence (DND) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) favour, is facing… Read More

After a month of lectures on Plato and Machiavelli, today I’m starting to teach Hobbes in my second-year undergraduate course on philosophical perspectives on conflict and rights. Personally, I find that this is the most interesting part of the course, except maybe for the two lectures on Foucault at the end. Based on my Twitter feed, it’s cle… Read More

Publié sur le site web du Canadian International Council. A new Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) was appointed by the Governor-in-Council last week. Following a few months of speculation about who would be named, Cabinet decided on Lieutenant-General Thomas Lawson, who had been serving as the deputy commander of the North American Aerospace Defence Comm… Read More

Publié dans le Globe and Mail, 3 avril 2012 In the wake of Tuesday’s expected report by the Auditor-General, the Conservative government’s hedging about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is likely to accelerate. After nearly two years of bold rhetoric and confident pronouncements, Canada’s procurement of 65 of these “fifth-generation” aircraft is now in do… Read More

Une version raccourcie de ce texte a été publiée dans La Presse le 27 mars 2012. Le recul du gouvernement Harper à l’égard de l’acquisition de 65 F-35 témoigne des malheurs entourant le développement du programme multinational d’avions de combat interarmées et des contraintes budgétaires au ministère de la Défense nationale. Dans un climat de haute tens… Read More

L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 9 janvier 2012 Should Canada abandon its constitutional monarchy and become a republic? Several commentators and notable politicians think so. Accustomed to seeing the monarchy as a quaint symbol of Canada’s colonial past, many Canadians have been irked by the Conservatives’ blunt reminder… Read More

Par Philippe Lagassé et Srdjan Vucetic The F-35 program has received mostly bad press for months—until  the government of Japan made a formal announcement on December 19 that it had selected Lockheed Martin’s stealth design as the winner of a new fighter jet competition process. In the mid-2000’s, six aircraft were being mentioned as candidates: the Dass… Read More