{"id":14058,"date":"2012-03-13T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14058"},"modified":"2012-03-13T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:58:18","slug":"yet-another-straw-in-the-wind-on-canadas-f-35-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/yet-another-straw-in-the-wind-on-canadas-f-35-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another straw in the wind on Canada&#8217;s F-35 plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/canada\/minister-raises-prospect-of-nixing-controversial-f-35-fighter-jet-purchase-142486055.html\" target=\"_blank\">Murray Brewster<\/a>, published in the <em>Winnipeg Free Press<\/em> looks at more signs that Canada may not be as tightly bound to their F-35 purchase plans:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The point man on the F-35 stealth fighter purchase says the Conservative government has not ruled out abandoning the troubled project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have not, as yet, discounted the possibility, of course, of backing out of any of the program,&#8221; Julian Fantino associate defence minister, told the Commons defence committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He made the comment after a series of pointed questions from both opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>Fantino said the government is still committed to buying the radar-evading jet, but no contract has been signed.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives still believe the high-tech jet is the best choice to replace the aging CF-18s, but the minister suggested they are taking a cautious approach.<\/p>\n<p>None of the other nine allied nations involved in the program has yet withdrawn and the minister said: &#8220;We are not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>In months of questioning in the House of Commons, Fantino has insisted there is no need for a backup plan in case of further delays in the project as the manufacturer works out software and design glitches.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday, he told the committee he was waiting for defence officials to prepare alternate scenarios to the F-35 deal, the so-called Plan B that opposition parties have demanded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Murray Brewster, published in the Winnipeg Free Press looks at more signs that Canada may not be as tightly bound to their F-35 purchase plans: The point man on the F-35 stealth fighter purchase says the Conservative government has not ruled out abandoning the troubled project. &#8220;We have not, as yet, discounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,5,15],"tags":[145,556,559,214],"class_list":["post-14058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-military","category-technology","tag-airforce","tag-f-18","tag-f-35","tag-rcaf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3EK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14060,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions\/14060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}