{"id":18093,"date":"2012-12-07T11:56:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T16:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18093"},"modified":"2012-12-07T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T16:56:59","slug":"is-this-the-epitaph-for-canadas-f-35-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/is-this-the-epitaph-for-canadas-f-35-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the epitaph for Canada’s F-35 plans?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the National Post<\/em>, Kelly McParland<\/a> offers two interpretations:<\/p>\n

Ottawa is finally owning up to the fact the F-35 jet fighter purchase program is dead in the water. The Prime Minster\u2019s Office insists the decision has not been made yet, but that\u2019s reportedly just a formality. The killer was the cost: the government just couldn\u2019t keep pretending it could deliver the jets for $9 billion plus expenses; it was more likely to be around $30 billion (which, curiously enough, is roughly what Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page said they\u2019d cost. Probably just a lucky guess. We\u2019d ask him, but the Tories have duct-taped his mouth shut). The half-full view is that Ottawa bought into what seemed a worthwhile fighter, only to have the program unravel, and it\u2019s doing the right thing (if a bit belatedly) in admitting it. Half-empty view is that the Tories totally mucked up the whole operation and were too pig-headed to look at alternatives from the beginning. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The odds against the RCAF ever getting their hands on the F-35 have been getting longer for a while: “GAO latest to attempt to shoot down the F-35<\/a>” (March), “F-35 and the \u201cbubbling skin\u201d problem<\/a>” (March), “David Akin: The F-35 fiasco is now a boondoggle<\/a>” (April), “The F-35 program is \u201cMilitary Keynesianism\u201d<\/a>” (April), “The F-35, the \u201csupersonic albatross\u201d?<\/a>” (April), “The F-35 is \u201cunaffordable and simply unacceptable\u201d<\/a>” (July), “The F-35 program in the cross-hairs<\/a>” (November).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the National Post, Kelly McParland offers two interpretations: Ottawa is finally owning up to the fact the F-35 jet fighter purchase program is dead in the water. The Prime Minster\u2019s Office insists the decision has not been made yet, but that\u2019s reportedly just a formality. The killer was the cost: the government just couldn\u2019t […]<\/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":[6,5],"tags":[123,559,214],"class_list":["post-18093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-military","tag-aircraft","tag-f-35","tag-rcaf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4HP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093","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=18093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18095,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions\/18095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}