Ottawa seeking alternatives to troubled F-35 fighter jet:

OTTAWA – The Conservative government will signal it is serious about buying an alternative to the F-35 fighter jet by asking rival manufacturers about the cost and availability of their planes, according to defence industry sources.

The formal request for information will be issued to rivals like Boeing, which produces the Superhornet, and the consortium that makes the Eurofighter Typhoon, asking them what jets are available, and at what cost, if the Canadian government decides to ditch the trouble-plagued F-35 purchase.

The pricing and availability information request falls short of a formal tender but government sources said the “market analysis” will send a signal to voters and industry that it is taking seriously the Auditor-General’s spring report that was heavily critical of the F-35 procurement process.


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Wait a minute they are responding to a Spring report of the Auditor General. Anyone tell them
its nearly December? This was a bad deal in the first place. The first response should be to
fire those who approved the move and fire the Defence Minister for asking more questions sooner.
It should also be asked, how committed to the deal are we and how much will it cost to bail out as
it were. What will the additional costs be to buy something else and what do we need.

We can never buy enough aircraft to protect Canada why don't we get one of them Iron domes or even two or three? Isn't something like that a better defense option? I know I'm probably just a conspiracy nut but I think attack aircraft might be used to attack some other country who would be legally permitted to attack us who haven't yet got Iron Domes. What the frack kind of defense policy has this traitorass government got? None whatever.

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Nobody is going to be attacking Canada with fleets of aircraft and fighters cannot intercept missiles