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Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked for a review of Canada’s plan to purchase a fleet of F-35 fighter jets.

The deal with Lockheed Martin and the U.S. government is for 88 planes at a cost of about US$85 million each.

A spokesperson for Defence Minister Bill Blair said Carney has asked Blair to look into whether the F-35 contract is the best investment for Canada, or if there are better options.

“We need to do our homework given the changing environment, and make sure that the contract in its current form is in the best interests of Canadians and the Canadian Armed Forces,” Blair’s press secretary Laurent de Casanove said.

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 13 points 19 hours ago

Lockheed Martin”We specialize in destroying the lives of brown people, come fly with us”

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

They can pay me in maple syrup.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

For the $70 billion it would apparently cost in total to have these super fancy fighter jets, they could instead build a million new low-cost housing units and still have some money left over to work on inventing innovative air defence systems that aren't so expensive..

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[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Gonna need a tariff...

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