Canada To Cancel F-35 Fighter Purchase

The F-35 had been the military’s plane of choice until it met with a series of problems including delays in its development and a rising price tag. Samuel King Jr./THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO

Federal Government Cancels F-35 Fighter Purchase -- Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA — The F-35 jet fighter purchase, the most persistent thorn in the federal government’s side and the subject of a devastating auditor-general’s report last spring, is dead.

Faced with the imminent release of an audit by accountants KPMG that will push the total projected life-cycle costs of the aircraft above $30 billion, the operations committee of the federal Cabinet decided to scrap the controversial sole-source program and go back to the drawing board, a source familiar with the decision said.

This occurred after Chief of the Defence Staff Thomas Lawson, while en route overseas, was called back urgently to appear before the committee, the source said.

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My Comment: The auditor's report is being released next week .... and (apparently) it is a 'bombshell'. This is Ottawa trying to get ahead of the curve .... but bottom line .... the cost of the F-35 program has ballooned to an unimaginable level. What`s my take ... this F-35 purchase is dead, and I have doubts that Canada will be buying any  F-35s in the future.