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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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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago

Messing with the military industrial complex is not the smartest move for Trump. All that will do is turn the military against him.

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 20 points 23 hours ago

maybe don't rely on fighter jets than can possibly be disabled remotely by someone talking about invading you

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 16 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 22 hours ago (5 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 23 hours ago

Gonna need a tariff...

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