Posted on 01/27/2026 12:15:57 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
U.S. President Donald Trump's ambassador to Canada is warning of consequences to the continental defence pact if Canada does not move forward with the purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets.
"NORAD would have to be altered," U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told CBC News in an exclusive interview at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
He says the United States would likely need to purchase more of the advanced fighter aircraft for its own air force, and would fly them more often into Canadian airspace to address threats approaching the U.S.
"If Canada is no longer going to provide that [capability], then we have to fill those gaps," said Hoekstra.
The North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) is a decades-old partnership between Canada and the United States which tracks inbound threats and scrambles armed jets to intercept where appropriate.
It allows the closest aircraft to respond, and there have been multiple recent instances where the U.S. military has flown into Canada.
In September, American F-15s responded near Calgary after a bomb threat on a German airliner. Two years earlier, an American F-22 shot down a suspicious cylindrical balloon floating over Yukon.
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We’ll take Alberta, China can have the rest. Most of Canda and China are ideological soul mates.
Nobody in the current administration seems bothered by “altering the shape of NATO,” so it’s difficult to see why they’d treat NORAD any differently.
NATO is useless. NORAD is vital to our nation’s security.
And the Santa Tracker!
Sell the 88 F-35s to Taiwan.
Better yet, sell 188 F-35s to Taiwan.
Silliness. Nobody is attacking empty Canada. But the WOULD pass over Canada to attack us. So kicking them out of NORAD would be dumb.
Anyway, they don’t need F-35 Moonpig. It’s rather slow and short-legged. And a single engine over the vast empty Artic regions is a poor idea.
An F-18 or F-15 would be far better up there.
And last but not least, fighters really have very little work up there. This isn’t 1950 with Russian bombers trying to make it over the pole into the USA. The Canadians need SAM sites with anti-missile capability. Or more accurately, that is what WE need and to place them up there.
NATO needed the shake up that they have received from the Russian invasion and the Trump face splash that NATO be real or it is nothing, the same goes for the parasitic nation of Canada, we know they can’t defend themselves alone but they sure better start getting heavily invested in making the most of their capabilities like Poland and other NATO nations are doing.
Trump figures the USA is about to have a border with China and must adjust accordingly?
Would we miss Minneapolis? The big city with the five-prayer-a-day mayor?
The reason the Europeans are stuffing their cities with Moslems is to make sure Iranian missiles with nuclear warheads couldn’t do any really serious damage.
Liberalism is the first killer bee for country destruction.
WIKI
Michelle Wu (Chinese: 吳弭; pinyin: Wú Mǐ; born January 14, 1985) is an American lawyer and politician who has been the 54th mayor of Boston since 2021
A supporter of fare-free public transportation, Wu has funded a pilot program of fare-free service on three MBTA bus routes, expanding on a single-route pilot program that had previously been started under Kim Janey’s preceding acting mayoralty.
Her father, Han Wu, was admitted to the Illinois Institute of Technology for graduate studies; however, neither he nor his wife spoke much English. Raised with Mandarin Chinese as a first language, Wu often interpreted between English and Mandarin for her parents.
Wu graduated from Barrington High School in 2003 as the valedictorian of her class. Wu received perfect scores on the SAT and ACT and in 2003 was selected as a Presidential Scholar from Illinois. Wu’s parents hoped that she would pursue a career in medicine; in part due to their experiences of the Chinese Civil War, they viewed politics as a corrupt and risky career path.
In 2009, she returned to Massachusetts with her mother and youngest siblings to earn her J.D. from Harvard Law School, from which she graduated in 2012.
In her first semester at Harvard Law School, one of her professors was Elizabeth Warren. After Wu explained her family’s situation to Warren, a long friendship developed between the two women.
Crediting Wu as a leader on fare-free public transit, in January 2021, the editorial board of The Boston Globe endorsed the idea of making the city’s buses fare-free. Her promotion of fare-free public transit also inspired Lawrence, Massachusetts mayor Daniel Rivera to implement it in his city.
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My dad flew Voodoos, Delta Darts and Delta Daggers in NORAD/ADC (Air Defense Command) for about 8 years total. They wore the cool orange flight suits (so you could see them if they had to bail out). He once closed with a UFO he never could identify and sat alert 1-2 days a week. Dad was a badass.
Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)
Canada’s Liberal Governments on and off the F-35 over and over again , that must cost a lot of money ,LOL
Hi, for one, I am sick and tired of a multitude of extremely prosperous nations leeching off of the American taxpayer and expecting the United States to provide 90% or more of the defense dollars, equipment and manpower necessary to defend their countries. I don’t mind being part of an alliance in which the United States has the largest contribution. After all, we are the largest economy in the world, we have the most resources on the planet, and we have a military capability that is second to none. But to continue to allow others to leech off of us is intolerable. It’s not 1950 or 1960 anymore, these nations have more than recovered from the devastation of World War II. They have also, until Trump came into office, benefited immensely from very favorable tariffs that this country allowed them to keep going. Trump is correct, OUR leaders were stupid for allowing this to continue for so long. For God’s sake, it’s been 80 years since the end of World War II, when are these nations going to contribute a fair share to their own national defense? What really galls me is that they are using the tax dollars that they should be spending on defense to bolster their social welfare programs while simultaneously criticizing us for not having a generous social welfare program in this country. Well guys, we can’t afford it when we’re paying for you. Besides, cradle to grave care from the state creates a bunch of subjects, not free citizens. We reject that model, even if we could afford it.
Don’t forget NYC
F-14’s with Phoenixes and Sparrows would work perfectly.
The Superhornet makes more sense for their pilots, but the Grippen is actually faster AND cheaper.
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