Hmmmm?
Donald ain’t being nice….
Soooo?
It might end up cost American jobs and Money….
Canada is reevaluating its planned purchase of U.S. F-35 fighter jets over the escalating trade tensions between Washington and Ottawa in what has become a flash point in bilateral relations between the two allies.
Canada has committed to buying at least 16 F-35A Lightning II, a fifth-generation aircraft, produced by Lockheed Martin. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is weighing whether to buy another 72. A mix of domestic political pressure, rising costs and an increasingly contentious relationship with President Trump has prompted Carney’s government to consider looking elsewhere for military hardware.
Vincent Rigby, who previously served as national security and intelligence adviser to Justin Trudeau’s government, said the escalating rhetoric from Washington has pushed a lot of policymakers in Canada to rethink the defense relationship between the two neighbors.
“We defend the North American continent very closely with the United States. I think our national interest in that respect will always converge, we hope. At the same time, they’re saying stuff, doing stuff that really puts us in a difficult position,” Rigby said in an interview with The Hill.
“And so one of the things that we’ve been thinking about more and more is we should be buying less from the United States and diversifying our defense relationships, buying more equipment, procuring more stuff from Europe, from the Indo-Pacific region, from countries like South Korea. And this is a big break.
This is a real, real departure.”
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