If Canada cannot protect itself nor afford to, then they should just become the protectorate of the US..............
Imagine being do beholden to another country and its technology for your own defense. Scary. And we are practically there with China.
As the tail wags....where does that leave Europe and Canada. Rome is falling. Only Christianity will survive, tortured as it will be.
When you let others defend you, you become a desperate whore, unavoidably.
Sadly, the F-35 is a Gold Plated fighter program.
For decades the military could house, maintain, and operate fighter aircraft with reasonable hangars and work spaces.
Today, every F-35 squadron of 15 aircraft spends more than $1 billion in fancy hangars and workspaces. It doesn’t really need it, but the gold plating rips off the taxpayers because there are no stops, no limits, and no oversight on spending anymore.
Even the gate guard shacks on Air Force bases are multi million dollar fancy structures. Private businesses rarely see such spending, and certainly your own home doesn’t.
My buddies and I used to go to Windsor, Ontario for the “Canadian Ballet”. Many years later we realized what a waste of money it was, and that if we tried that today, we’d be hauled off coming back in and so would the car. Back then, the guy at the US border would ask where we had been, what we did and how long we were there. In one particular instance, the answers we gave were “At the p*ssy bar!”, “Got f*cked up!” and “Too long!”. We never did have a problem coming home, not even then.
Buy drones instead.
The F35 is just a poor platform.
What does Canada need a military for these days?