The NDP says it wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to cancel contracts for U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets — including the 16 Canada has already committed to buying.
The US is no longer a reliable partner. With everything they’ve done over the last year why should we trust them with this deal? That they won’t change it or put restrictions, or exit tariffs on any of this? How do we know there won’t be spyware in the jets operating system, or a kill switch, or an override routine?
Choose the vendor who is willing to work with us. Saab is willing to give us the source code for the jets operating system. They’re willing to manufacture the jets in Canada.
The US will keep their operating system and be able to modify it with impunity. ‘Did your plane fall out of the sky? Our bad. Our latest patch had a bug and we didn’t find it until it was too late.’
They already have terrible reliability and need a constant stream of parts to keep them in the sky. The US doesn’t even need a kill switch. They could just stop supplying parts.
The US is no longer a reliable partner. With everything they’ve done over the last year why should we trust them with this deal? That they won’t change it or put restrictions, or exit tariffs on any of this? How do we know there won’t be spyware in the jets operating system, or a kill switch, or an override routine?
Choose the vendor who is willing to work with us. Saab is willing to give us the source code for the jets operating system. They’re willing to manufacture the jets in Canada.
The US will keep their operating system and be able to modify it with impunity. ‘Did your plane fall out of the sky? Our bad. Our latest patch had a bug and we didn’t find it until it was too late.’
I’m amazed how the top minds didn’t see this threat after 2016
They already have terrible reliability and need a constant stream of parts to keep them in the sky. The US doesn’t even need a kill switch. They could just stop supplying parts.
They were never a reliable partner.
NAFTA being a trade agreement that they can tariff but we can’t should have been the end of it.