It may provoke Trump, but Canada should cancel the purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the U.S.

They cannot be trusted, that much we know. We need to become independent and not reliant

Existing provokes Trump.

We shouldn't have caved back in the Arrow days.

Bring back the avro arrow. Let's do it.

As should europe. Clearly you can't trust the USA anymore. What is the long-term prospect for spare parts?

We should throw some cash at Saab and see if they can come up with a stealth gripen or something.

The aircraft has significant security risks for sure and makes sense to cancel. But canceling the order won't be on Trump's radar unless it affects his inner circle of evil billionaires who have funneled dark money to him.

Canada should cancel the F-35 contract and their are better fighter jets from reliable NATO allies. The F-35 is a $2 trillion USD turd that is still not 100%. If Canada continues to purchase US weapons, this would be like Poland buying weapons from Nazi Germany. I am hoping the US MIC becomes pissed off.

Goddamn right we should. Take the French up on the offer to build the Rafale here. Or the Swedes. And get a few demo units for short term.

Fuck 'em on any cancellation fees too. Consider it partial compensation for the ridiculous trade war.

The US can remotely disable them whenever they damn well please anyway, and can not be trusted not to.

Everyone should be canceling their orders immediately, and disable the remote access capabilities to the ones they have.

American here. Who cares if it provokes Trump? Actions have consequences. Canada helped out a lot during 911. What did we do? Prove to be an unreliable partner

100% TODAY! Do not pay a fucking dime of any amount owing for these. (good job on Globe and Mail for a change)

FYI, the Israeli version of F35 does not have this "US permission for every flight required"

F35 is a POS plane, with low uptime, in addition to "broken ownership". Even US military does not get manuals on how to repair/maintain them and must hire Lockheed consultants to do the job. The whole program was a boondoggle to pay Lockheed the most money possible instead of getting good military equipment, and any corrupt POS that was involved in approving this purchase for Canada should be jailed for treason.

With tariffs hammering F-35 sales, I expect the next Eurofighter project will have a lot more resources. I wonder if Canada will get involved.

Any NATO member increasing their military spending would be idiotic to spend their money with US-based companies.

I don't think Canada should be basing their defense decisions on the opinion and thin skin of the American government. Trying to force Canada, in any way, to purchase F35's is fishy - not that that's happening, of course.

Canada's interests are for Canada. Not them. Also, maybe Canada should reboot their ventures into the Avro Arrow program again. That'll ruffle some feathers. Canadian engineered military = quite formidable, I think.

The PM agrees with The Globe and Mail once and now they think they'll get two in a row?

Nah, y'all should accept delivery then refuse to pay. Give him a taste of his own medicine.

ooh no, it might provoke the person who is back stabbing us at every conceivable opportunity

Every country knows the US changes faces faster than my ex girlfriend.

At this point other countries just need to deal with 4 years of this bullshit.

If Trump were to take over the government like Hitler did, which looks to be the case, only then would countries start looking at dropping the USA.

Hell yeah they should. We need to be able to defend ourselves against southern aggression, and the F35 is compromised based on what Trump himself threatened.

Let’s do it and replace them with MiGs 🤨

With a potential for an american invasion on the table, I wouldn't want to cancel that deal without another similar plane deal lined up

What would they do instead? Get a bunch of J-35s, like Egypt?

Switzerland too!