Following up on that, you also declared that the March 2022 decision to pick up the Lockheed Martin F-35 as the preferred bidder to supply 88 new fighter aircraft “comes late in our view”.
Indeed, a lot of what we know now about the F-35 today, we knew already in 2012. The last thing Canada should want now is to delay any longer. The RCAF and our national industrial base have waited long enough.
Full disclosure, I was on the OGGO committee back in 2012. I recall many of these conversations, and the launch of this project.
What are the costing impacts of these delays? What are the impacts on the industry?