{"id":185753,"date":"2014-08-21T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/21\/canada-puts-off-decision-on-f-35-purchase\/"},"modified":"2014-08-21T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T02:36:00","slug":"canada-puts-off-decision-on-f-35-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/21\/canada-puts-off-decision-on-f-35-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Puts off Decision on F-35 Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that they will still buy it, PM Harper is determined to buy it, but it is significant that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/canadas-second-thoughts-on-f-35-lightning-show-concerns-about-planes-high-cost\/2014\/08\/18\/3349a1ba-1e37-11e4-ab7b-696c295ddfd1_story.html\">looking at doing a full up competition with other aircraft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">O, Canada, land of \u201cpeace, order and good government.\u201d Land of compromise and polite politics. Land of turmoil over whether to buy the F-35.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As in the United States, the fighter plane has become a rancorous political issue. What once looked like a sure buy of 65 planes has been bogged down by infighting and un-Canadian vitriol, and the purchase is on hold while Canadian officials consider whether to buy another plane. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The decision effectively pushes the purchase decision past elections, and I don&#8217;t think that anyone beside Boeing will submit a bid, the idea that Canada would purchase a non-US airframe being ludicrous, particularly for Harper, who really buys into the whole &#8220;special relationship&#8221; thing with the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that they will still buy it, PM Harper is determined to buy it, but it is significant that they are looking at doing a full up competition with other aircraft: O, Canada, land of \u201cpeace, order and good government.\u201d Land of compromise and polite politics. Land of turmoil over whether to buy the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1113,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-canada","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}