Unlike Canada, other countries dealt with those concerns over F\u002D35s, placed their orders, and have fighter jets to show for it
If you told me in 2018 that in four years, Ontario would be well on the way to resurrecting the Northlander — a very slow train from Toronto to Cochrane, Ont. some 600 kilometres north as the crow flies — I would have chuckled skeptically. The previous provincial Liberal governmenta decade ago because it was hogging subsidies, and replaced it with bus service.
This brings us to a whole other league of government procurement, where things are not going nearly so well. On Monday, the federal government announced that Canada’s next fighter jet would be the F-35. Readers may remember that the Liberals, under two successive leaders, had promised never to buy these wretched Yankee jets.Article content
Juvenile antics aside, however, many of the worries over the F-35’s suitability for Canada and as a value-for-money proposition were entirely warranted. Canada was far from the only country to express doubts and flirt with breaking ranks. The opposition parties were doing their jobs, mostly. And indeed, one of the first things the Conservatives did after winning their majority in 2011 was to downshift on their F-35 certitude.
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