The Liberal government could leave after only 90 days' notice, although it would still need to pay the remaining fees the Conservatives committed to the F-35 program

Linked National Post on purpose. Given their bias I believe they’d present the worst case scenario.

E: Apparently the article is from 2016 so the cost is likely higher today.

  • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
    32·
    6 days ago

    We need to pull out of this deal, the last thing Canada needs is to buy weapons from the country that has designs to annex us. And that sells weapons with kill switches.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      It doesn’t have a kill switch. It’s a computer program that helps the radar and stuff. Right now everyone’s program goes to the US for QA before they fly with it. It’s purely by agreement, countries are absolutely physically capable of doing this on their own.