Canada is pursuing a deal to purchase 88 F-35s from Lockheed Martin, an about-face for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who swore in 2015 to find another source for next-generation fighter jets.
Plane models stand outside the Lockheed Martin Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. | Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesOTTAWA, Ont. —
“[The jets] are going to contribute to our multilateral alliances, both here on the North American continent and in terms of of our ... NATO capabilities,” Defense Minister Anita Anand told reporters in Ottawa. Anand noted Monday that Canada’s hunt for new fighters began well before Russia’s war on Ukraine. Asked if Canada’s C$19 billion budget for the purchase still stands, she said “details on costing will be further refined.”
Simon Page, assistant deputy minister for defense at the procurement department, told the press conference that the government hopes to ink a contract in 2022, though any deal will likely take at least seven months.In 2015, Trudeau pledged, if elected, to. At the time, Trudeau also said he would not buy the Lockheed planes and that he intended to open a new procurement process to find a cheaper option.
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