Defence procurement is the government promise that keeps on rebooting. At the moment, Canada is preparing to purchase 25 second-hand F-18 fighter jets from Australia — pending U.S. approval —as a stop-gap measure until it can replace its fleet with new jets. The earlier plan was to buy 18 used jets, making this the roughly zillionth update to Canada’s defence procurement plan.
This de facto refusal to truly modernize our fighter jet fleet will make Canada look like the runt compared to our allies. And by “allies,” I am referring mainly to nations beyond our increasing rogue and unpredictable friend to the south; nations such as Australia, Denmark, Norway and the Czech Republic which, unlike Canada, are not allowing their government’s fighter jet procurement plans to indefinitely sputter and stall.
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