Blame the whole Sea King bullshit on Chretien and his Liberals (And I'm a Liberal btw) who cost the Gov half a billion dollars to cancel the contract and took em ten damn years to get a new one!
I've done operations in the Sea Kings and in thier prime they were awesome! But thier prime was 20-30 years ago. You beat the hell out of any vehicle that long and it'll need replacement.
But the blame lies on the apathy of the Canadian public towards the military. If it wasn't for polititians pandering for votes with greenpeace loving hippys we would not be putting our forces in unnessecary danger from our own equipment. The majority of people still believe in the "It won't happen to us" mentality. As much as I dissapprove of blind ignorant patriotism, I admire the American "Support our Troops" policy.
This is a democracy, it is up to the people to make the changes happen!