Lockheed Martin: A Bad Business Partner

Lockheed Martin is now threatening Canada with jobs that it was supposed to create as part of the F-35 boondoggle.

In 10 years, all we’ve heard about is these jets, yet we’ve never seen a single one in the Canadian fleet.

It’s time to cut ALL of our ties with Lockheed Martin.

Their recent threat can only be classified as a dick move.

Whoever is fortunate enough to win the contract to supply us with jets – assuming we actually need them – will also provide Canadians with decent jobs.

Their statement and threat therefore is empty and unprofessional.

Now … I’d like to address the ‘story behind the story’.

In 2008, Public Works Canada awarded the awarded Lockheed Martin Canada a contract to provide Statistics Canada software for its employees to process questionnaires in preparation for and during the 2011 Census.

This small contract was then converted to a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to effectively collect, scan, collate and store all of the data collected with the Long Form Census.

As a result of this news, I did not fill my long form census.  It’s not because I’m a libertarian and felt I needed the Conservatives to protect me from ‘Big Brother’ (another asshole policy decision from the Conservatives, twisting my opposition into some horrible meme for themselves).

It was because I object to any private getting access to my personal information.  I told my friends and neighbours to do the same and a protest grew.

What’s a plane company doing running our statistics?  Interesting question, especially in light of what they’re doing now.

It’s time we stopped this madness of handing over our public affairs to any private company.  Let’s start by severing all ties to Lockheed Martin because they clearly do not respect Canadians, our wishes or our rights and because of that, we should know we can’t trust them with our personal data.