Posted on 03/28/2022 2:51:46 PM PDT by Candor7
OTTAWA - Canada’s decade-long search for a new fighter jet to replace its aging CF-18s came full circle on Monday as the Liberal government announced negotiations with U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin to purchase the F-35.
Yet even as the end to that circuitous search appeared to finally be in sight, many unanswered questions remained: how much the aircraft will cost? When they will start to arrive in Canada? And were the past 12 years of debate and delays worth it?
Procurement Minister Filomena Tassi and Defence Minister Anita Anand confirmed during a news conference that Lockheed Martin’s stealth fighter beat out Sweden’s Saab Gripen in a competition many had long considered the F-35’s to lose.
The government will now launch formal negotiations with the company this week for the purchase of 88 F-35s to replace Canada’s CF-18s, with officials anticipating the talks will take about seven months and result in a final contract by the end of the year.
Tassi and Anand emphasized the negotiations do not mean a deal for the F-35 is done, and that the government retains the option to talk with Saab about its Gripen fighter should discussions with Lockheed Martin stall.
Despite what Anand described as a “rigorous” competition designed to ensure Canada gets the best fighter jet at the lowest cost with the most economic benefits, a senior procurement official indicated the scope of the negotiations will be broad.
“We need to discuss capability requirements, we need to discuss costs, we need to discuss timelines, when are we going to get these aircraft,” said Public Service and Procurement Canada assistant deputy minister Simon Page.
“So there are still quite a few parameters and variables to bring home with the company.”
Socialist Trudeau, an admirer of Castro, has been deconstruncting the military in Canada for 7 years. The standin military force has 70,000 soldiers in its combined army, navy and air force services. The populatio of Canada is 37 million, and Canada has the longest contiguous coastline in the world but no body is home to protect Canadas sovereignty.
The big boys in NATO have ridiculed Turdeau as a tyrant and a dictator for his consduct in relation to the Freedom Convoy.
Now Turdeau, too little too late, who had turned downed the F-35 purchase under former PM Harper seven years ago, now wants street cred with NATO. We could have had them 5 years ago.
Of the 88 new planes, 44 will have to be flown by women.
Turdeau wants the big guns to strengthen his street cred in Europe. I have to laugh at the sophomoric libtard socialist.
Once a Dictator always a Dictator
Did they ask for a custom tractor trailer targeting option?
Once a Dictator always a Dictator>>>>>>>>>>
Both the USA and Canada are now being run by two village idiots.
If we survive, we will never make that mistake again I hope.
Trudeau wants the fighters to complement the wicked navy Parliament endlessly plans to build before they cancel the plans.
Did they ask for a custom tractor trailer targeting option?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yes they did. But Lockheed Martin refused to paint Trudeau in black face on each of the added units, so we turned them down
until they could be activated in a French Language code word encryption.
Codeword “Toot” becomes “Toute” for example. Federal bilingual policey makes it very complicated for Lockheed-Martin’s voice operated software. Then they have to put felale suitable pissoirs in each cockpit, that should up the price a bit.
Canada does not have a single air refuling tanker. Idiots.
You raise an interesting point in the science of fractional idiocy.
Maybe Fauxi needs to start a Commission of Enquiry.
Canada would probably be better served by one of the new F-15 variants. With all that remote coastline and the Arctic to patrol, I’d prefer a twin-engine design.
The Viggen would have been a much better opyiopn OMHO, for disperesal . STOL, and artic operating capacity.But the practicalities escape Turdeau, who ltinks of stays above all elese, He is a poseur pimp who drives nothing but a caddy.
Schwab was bragging that he owns Canada!
Time to think about a replacement for those Voodoos?
Using on the truckers next year?
A proven arctic interceptor, if not Superhornets. The 35 just doesn’t meet Canada’s mission requirements, unless they plan on more foreign adventurism.
Why wait, the Trudeau feds are lashing down the organizers of the convoy with criminal prosecutions 3 are out on bail, but the fooooourth still is in jail simply because he is the most charismatic.
The lefty NDP and the Marxist liberals are scared to death odf the rise opf a populist political movewment. It signals the end of their rule, whichi has created a massive socialist oligarchy in Canada.
The Liberals have made rasing money publicly almost impossible through sites like Go Fund Me, citing the influence of “foreign money,,,,,Russia Russiam Russia etc.”
Talk about afraid, it spaned a coalition between the NDP and Liberakls so they will vote in a block, making themn an effective majority government that the Conservatives and Block Quebecois cannot topple.This violates parliamentary tradition.In effect the NDP just sold out to the liberas without even having obtained a seat on Trudeau’s cabinet.
I can guarantee you that you have not seen the last of the Freedom Movement in Canada. “Turdeau” is proving to be a tyrant.He is bringing the Great Soicialist Reset to Canada, proposing a massive 12 billion guaranteed Child care system for all parents in Canada so women do not have to “Choiose between family and career.” In other words the state is about to become the parent, not the partents themselves.The reset has begun. It will not be long either before we see the LGBTQ community making presentations to 5 year olds , taking away their innocence by advocating various “sexual options.”
The slippery slope is now at the poor barren feet of all of Canada.No Freedom. I say NO PEACE.
Exactly.
I have a relative in the Canadian Frces Navy.
They train by doing East coast cruises into the Carribean every year for 6 months.They only hav e4 ships on the entire East coast.2 Arleigh Burkes and 2 mine sweeping frigates.
Canada has one ice breaker up North while the Russian have nuclear powered icebrealers in the same region.
Turdeau worls exta hard to keep that fact out of the nudes.
The USA plans on having 2400 F -35s by 2036. Canada plans on having 88 by 2027.
Canadas adventurism means hanging on for dear life , hoping the USA will come to the rescue when Russia or China takes the Canadian Arctic for their own.
Canada is a victimof socialists much like Argentina was, except its a slow walk, creeping socialism Marxism. Trudeau actually is a Stalin so camoflauged he looks like the “boy next door.” Women in Cnada vote for him because of his metro sexual hair, while freedom bleeds away in gun control, and funding over reach by the feds to control provincial governments. Its a sad scene.
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