New Democrats today called on Prime Minister Carney to cancel the F-35 fighter jet order, including the 16 initial fighter jets, with the United States and instead commit to purchasing the Swedish Saab Gripen fighter jets to defend Canada in partnership with like-minded ally countries.
Can we even do that? I thought we had some sort of commitment already for part of the order at least.
There are 16 that are already bought and paid for. Those are in production. There are 14 more that the government recently paid deposits on to keep their place in line for production. Then there’s another 58 that have neither been paid in full nor had deposits paid.