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Originally Posted by dammage79
Just read an Ottawa Citizen article that the Canadian Government may use the F-35 procurement bid to leverage against the U.S in other sectors like the EV tariffs that are putting Canadian jobs in the auto sector at risk.
Although through reading the story I can't help but think that this was the U.S plan all along. Screw Canada elsewhere and agree to put thing back to normal if Canada buys the F-35.
Strong arming the bidding process so to speak.
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a 19.5 billion dollar bid isn't going to move the needle on the car industry. Ifs that's Trudeau's strategy of holding that over their heads it will fail.
Lockheed Martin has already delivers 700 F-35's with a expected 156 a year til end of life. So a 65 plane order might sting but in the long run probably in the minds of the US government its pretty easy to stick to their protectionist guns on the auto industry and then punish Canada later if they go with the JAS for political reasons.
I'd prefer to see whichever jet, the F-35 or the JAS-39E win on their merits as a fighter replacement for the next 20 years. Not political BS.