Canada buying 88 F-35 jets to replace aging CF-18s | FULL announcement

Defence Minister Anita Anand says Canada is officially buying the F-35 fighter jet to replace its aging CF-18s.

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33 comments

  1. Again Canadian tax payers lost 100s of millions due to bad decision of liberal . If was cancelled by 2015 end up we paid for maintenance of outdated jets for years and delayed acquire of proper jet to defend our country.

    1. Why upgrade 4th gen fighter jets when you can have the best plane in the world currently? 6th gens are already in the works. Canadas military has been a joke since the so called “dark years of the forces” time to change that

    2. @Cal Depen a billion? It was 2 million…3 too many zeros. You’re probably confused with the Liberals’ gun registry…oh wait….that was 2 billion

  2. $500 per citizen. Hope we each get to write our names on the planes as souvenirs for our enemies when the planes strafe them.

  3. So hold on there. Conservatives had committed to buy that same plane which was scrapped by Trudenot when he accessed the Throne. We paid tons of penalties and are still dealing with the outcome of delaying the procurement project. Now that we are finally pressured by our allies for slacking off for a decade , we are going back to buy the same planes at higher price?

  4. It’s about time but sadly in the heels of outrageous liberal debt. We are paying as much to service the debt as these planes will cost.

  5. LoL

    “We will spend 19Billion dollars…. Then we’ll blame the next party in power for the outrageous spending (again) because that’s what we as the LIEberals do”

  6. Trudeau spent the money that was supposed to buy F35S for our defence, i hope its not to late, as our world is in deep rite now, i would say Canada should spend 10 TIMES as much, and build all our equipment at home, rite here at home, and 1 more thing, are they carbon neutral.

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