To the editor,
Not one news outlet in this province, including this one, picked up
our press release on the Lockheed Martin swindle. Lockheed Martin, the
world’s largest weapons manufacturer, will be receiving $1.8 million in
payroll rebates from the province of Nova Scotia for creating 100 new
jobs over the next five years. They’re creating those jobs with the
$1.4 billion they received last year from the federal government to
upgrade the navy’s combat systems. This is a company that made $3
billion in profit in 2007! Their death-causing products have terrorized
and killed civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s scandalous that
federal and provincial governments gave the richest war machine on the
planet billions of our dollars. The governments could have used that
money to invest in education and health care and to tackle climate
change. —Kaleigh Trace
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2009.
Yeah but it is the Military Industrial Complex that keeps contributing to the major political players in Canada.