Canada to buy F35 jets

[sprintstar]

not sure if this thread should go here or not, feel free to move if needed. Canada had agreed to buy 88 F35 jets from USA under the Trudeau administration. Since then Trump has added many tariffs, threatened to annex Canada etc etc Canada is contractually obligated to purchase 16 jets to start with and remaining to follow until 2035 completion. Now many people in Canada are speaking out and demanding Carney's government purchase 88 of the JAS 39 Gripen along with the 16 F35's, or scrap the F35 purchase totally and go with all Gripen's.
Many Canadians believe the propaganda that the Gripen is a better jet than the F35 and better suited for Canada's patrol areas. In fly off tests the F35 was vastly superior to the Gripen in all aspects including dog-fighting. Canadian pilots and Canadian Air Force brass want the F35 not the Gripen. If they choose to go with the Gripen it just the Canadian government once again cheapening out and not giving the guys what they need to do the job. I know that the Legacy Hornets we have can go one on one with the Gripen and do well. In my opinion a mix of the F15 EX or F15 Strike Eagle's and F35's would be a better fit for the Canadian Air force and ground crews. If Carney's government pulls out he will have wasted over 1.5billion of tax payers dollars. I do not believe he can cancel the 16 already contracted for. Opinions welcomed.

 

[Don Wassall]

I'm no expert on the capabilities of various fighter planes. What bothers me is how Trump has gone out of his way to ridicule and alienate Canada and thus caused somewhat serious damage in the relationship between the two countries.

There was a movie from 1995 called Canadian Bacon, a comedy starring the late great Canadian comedian John Candy, about an unpopular American president who decides to demonize Canada as a diversion from his own political problems. (As a side note it's amazing how many really good comedians have come from Canada. Besides Candy, Martin Short, Jim Carrey, Norm MacDonald and the recently deceased Catherine O'Hara come readily to mind, none of them Jewish either.) I believe the first South Park movie also had a plot involving a prospective war between the U.S. and Canada, obviously another comedy, as no American seriously believed the U.S. and Canada would ever be anything but friends.

Trump envisions himself as this great "peacemaker" when in reality he's a neo-con warmonger who continues to cause more and more countries to look to alternatives to the U.S. dollar and the U.S. itself as Trump's flip-flopping and chaotic personality are anything but conducive to peace and harmonious relations between nations.