Oh, Mulroney...there were the Airbuses that were bought for the air force as midair refuelers, which he took one and fitted out for a government airliner.
Then there was the whole "giving contracts for Bison upgrades and light armoured vehicle building deals to my shady friends in Montreal" thing.
Fucking Mulroney. He should be lucky they didn't find out about that LAV deal until a little while ago.
The Airbus weren't originally bought as tankers. They were bought as glorified airliners, to replace the old Boeing 707s that previously did that job. The air force should have bought some as tankers too. Rather than having two of them converted as such only a few years ago...
As for the flying white elephant, that was an attempt at imitating the Americans. And the Airbus bribery scandal was related to Air Canada, which also bought a bunch of them and was at the time government owned...
Out here there are folks still pissed about the CF-18 maintenance contract going to some company in Quebec instead of one in Edmonton...
At least we have LAVs. Look at the helicopter fiasco that followed Mulroney's ouster. Especially at the part where the specifications got repeatedly changed to prevent the cancelled EH-101 from winning all over again. And we still don't have the new ones yet...
Montreal must be our analog for Chicago. Politically you can't ignore the place, you usually need it to win, and it is as corrupt as all hell...