Posted on 07/02/2025 7:18:32 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Canada’s planned purchase of 88 F-35 stealth fighters is in jeopardy following a damning report from Auditor General Karen Hogan that revealed the program’s cost has ballooned by nearly 50% to C$27.7 billion.
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Nothing. They’re not going to spend a sum that large just to placate the President.
I'd like to buy stuff at 2019 prices too, how can I do that?
Canada has already paid for the first batch of F-35s,
And that's what happens when you drag a program out over many years ... decade(s) old cost estimates are meaningless. The airplanes don't "cost" more, you Canucks just devalued your currency. I bet it's about the same "cost" in ounces of gold.
Didn’t Trudeau cancel it and then start it up again , that could be a big part of the cost right there ,LOL
The other issue is that the per-unit cost increases if you slow down purchasing.
Maybe the Communist Liberals will buy something cheap from their Chinese Communist Party friends
Indeed. There are fixed costs to keeping the factory open regardless of production rate. And then there’s the gambit of spreading development costs over units produced. Fewer units produced yields greater development cost per unit. Anti-American communists in the democRAT Party use these tricks routinely to deceive We the People.
Canada is owned lock, stock, and barrel, by its colonial-globalist overlords in London.
How much is that in Canadian dollars?
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Well, that’s the point. They negotiated a price in 2017 ... and 8 years of inflation have wrecked the Canuck-Buck relative to the US Dollar ... and for that matter, wrecked it relative to the Canuck-Buck of 2017.
Now they’re whining.
I say to ‘em: “Kwitcherbitchin’ and pay. You won’t get a better deal from anybody else.”
Time to start building that wall?
Lease them.
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