Pierre Paul-Hus at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On April 1st, 2022. See this statement in context.

April 1st, 2022 / 1:20 p.m.

Conservative

Pierre Paul-Hus Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC

Thank you.

I think that I have 30 or 40 seconds left to ask my last question, which will be for Mr. Kasurak.

Mr. Kasurak, you said that the United States decided to buy fewer F‑35s. The Conservatives, at the time, said that they wanted to buy 65. The Liberal government, in the defence policy review, said that they would buy 88. I never understood why the Liberals wanted to buy more than the Conservatives in their assessment at the time.

Do you think that Canada should go back to 65 F‑35s and acquire another model to perform different tasks related to NORAD, for example?

Is this a possibility, Mr. Kasurak?

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