Posted on 03/13/2012 8:43:11 PM PDT by U-238
Two years of unwavering Conservative support for the F-35 took a major hit Tuesday as Associate Defence Minister Julian Fantino said the government has not ruled out walking away from the troubled stealth fighter program.
Fantino also revealed a team of defence department officials have been considering “all kinds of contingencies” should the F-35 not be ready to replace Canada’s aging fleet of CF-18s and acknowledged the government does not know how much each F-35 will cost.
The revelations led opposition parties to question why the sudden about-face after the Conservatives fought an election, in part, on purchasing the F-35 and sought to paint critics of the program as unpatriotic.
Fantino was appearing before the House of Commons’ defence committee with Defence Minister Peter MacKay and several high-level defence department officials less than two weeks after a major, closed-door meeting of F-35 partner nations in Washington.
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U.S. allies are getting tired of the delays, cost overruns, and excuses. And who can blame them?
This Cameron government is NOT what we would call conservative at all. Cameron would be a liberal Democrat here.
You are correct
His idea of the “Big Society” is enough to scream LEFTWING DUer to me.
Isn’t this Canada?
This article is about Canada’s conservative government.
The problem is the software codes and its holding up everything. The plane contains 6 million lines of code and by the time they are done it will be up to 10 million lines. The plane could fly fine with the amount of codes it currently has.
This is Canada
lol. I don’t care, I just felt like Kicking David Cameron
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