Lockheed Martin's role in the Canada Census since 2004 is not insignificant. In fact. millions of dollars of public taxpayer's money has been paid to Lockheed Martin (Canada) a subsidiary of US weapons of destruction manufacturer Lockheed Martin.
A 2006 issue of the CCPA Monitor magazine listed Lockheed Martin as one of the 10 Worst Corporations in the World.
Lockheed Martin (Canada) is headquartered in Kanata Ontario and has over 500 employees, working mostly on military-related projects.
The web home page of Lockheed Martin (Canada) is www.lockheedmartin.com/CANADA (our capital letters) The Lockheed Martin (Canada) website is merely an appendage to the parent Lockheed Martin site. As one navigates the site one drifts in and out of the parent company website. If the websites of the two companies are so integrated, we suspect that their actual structure and operations are likewise closely integrated. This leads us to believe that there is little difference whether the Census has been contracted out to Lockheed Martin (Canada) or Lockheed Martin.
Among Lockheed Martin's products is the F-16 fighter jet. Their website speaks of high levels of customer satisfaction with this weapon. It was a Lockheed Martin F-16 which dropped the bomb killing four Canadian soldiers in the friendly fire incident in Afghanistan. But it's sure nice to know that there is real customer satisfaction.
The President of Lockheed Martin (CANADA), T. Digan, comes with a profile which includes "a wealth of experience first as a career submariner in the US Navy . . ." (from LM Canada website). Yes, that's US Navy as in United States Navy.
We also wonder why Lockheed Martin, one of the biggest weapons manufacturers with close ties to the US military and allegedly to the CIA, has chosen to diversify into the census information-gathering business, particularly in other countries.
We believe it is a perverse misuse of public monies to contract out part of our Canada Census to one of the biggest weapons manufacturing conglomerates in the world.
But fortunately ordinary Canadians can easily register their disgust simply by providing only minimum cooperation with the coming May 2011 Census.
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