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Originally Posted by kn
The only saving grace is that the contract hasn't been signed. I know Andrew Coyne, someone whose opinion I respect, is calling for someone to be held to account. I wonder if MacKay will be removed from National Defense.
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Doubtful that McKay will be removed from National Defense. First and foremost he's probably the best defense minister that Canada has had since the late 40's. He stepped into a portfolio that nobody wanted and that successive governments destroyed.
While it hasn't stopped he's gone a long ways towards reversing the damage done to the Military under successive Liberal and to an extent Mulrooney's conservative government.
He's stopped the inevitable collapse of the Canadian Forces and returned it to being a very mission capable military.
I would expect at some point that Lockheed Martin will probably get subsidized by the U.S. government to complete the F-35 and allow it to get delivered to its allied at near the original price quoted. If that doesn't happen and they permanently lose their international orders for the F-35 and see the reduction of domestic orders then Lockheed Martin could be in serious trouble as they have rolled the dice with the F-35 as being one of the most numerous fighter jets in the world and the defacto standard for Western Airforces.