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.
Why even pay the cancelation fee?
It’s not like anything going on now is legitimate.
Or promise to pay but never do, like Trump did for his campaign rally expenses.
When the creditor calls tell them Canada doesn’t live here anymore and hang up like your room mate used to do for you in college.
Exactly. Canada should just choose to ignore it. Just like the US is ignoring international deals they’ve signed with other countries. Thing is: Canada has honour and our actual signature means something when we sign agreements. I don’t think Canada will sink as low as the US.
I do not think so either but we really should.
Doug Ford spent much more on canceling various contracts on a whim. I say bail.
Why bother paying anything? Let it go to court. Threatening annexation should fall under some kind of hostilities clause, national security clause, or force majeure clause. Anyway who’s going to collect?
The US government can pay
MDLockheed, they’re the ones who threatened annexation.Edit… Fixed above, not sure why I had MacDonell Douglas on my mind…strange substitution for a company that no longer exists under that name.
Not saying you’re wrong, but certainly that would be added to the made-up list of reasons to annex Canada.
If it is mentioned, say “We have changed our course and will pay in full.” Then don’t pay. Wait a week and say “We changed course and won’t pay.” repeatedly flip flop like a Trump.
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.
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.
https://www.saab.com/markets/canada/gripen-for-canada/built-for-canada-by-canada
From another page:
“In addition, Canada will have full and exclusive control over Gripen’s secure data – a unique advantage of our offer. The Gripen Centre in Montreal will host all work on the fighter’s mission system and Canadians will carry out this work. With the mission system, communications and technical data all hosted in Canada, Gripen exceeds all industrial, security and controlled goods requirements. With Gripen the Royal Canadian Air Force will have maximum control over sensitive data handling.”
It’s a no brainer, in a world of digital warfare, needing to rely on a foreign home base is a tremendous liability.
How are they the only ones offering that, that needs to be table stakes to even bid
Because we live in capitalist dictatorships masquerading as freedom™️ and democracy™️
But we assumed it was ok till recently? How was it ever ok?
Fuck it. They’re an intelligence hazard and that’s cheap in government terms.
Yes. In this case I linked it on purpose because of their handlers.
- But it continues the notion that we should rely on them for information, when they have most certainly poisoned Canadian culture and politics.
- Also, by sending users to an American site, it increases their revenues, when this money could have gone to a Canadian media site.
- And if you aren’t already aware, Canadian owned media is deliberately neglected because it’s contrary to a particular elite group in this country… And yeah, we should support and grow Canadian owned media regardless of political party.
But if you still insist on supporting American media…
I’ve been advocating joining GCAP, an effort by Japan, UK and Italy to make a 6th gen fighter. It isn’t scheduled to deliver the final design until 2035 though, so we would still need a stopgap.
Still, it would send a pretty strong signal and also allow as a path to reinvigorate our domestic aerospace defence industry.
This looks like a good idea. We do have people in Lunenberg, NS that have experience with working with stealth materials which could be a significant contribution to that project.
Could we call it the Arrow? Though I’d also be cool with it being called Spitfire.
I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the final platform had room for national partner tweaks. Probably could call ours the Arrow 2: Strange Brew or something.
That’s less than the total incurred costs of Ford’s decision to break the contract with The Beer Store a year earlier than scheduled.
Of course Canada needs to leave. Do Canadian politicians think the US will supply it with parts as it invades?
Buy some Gripen and/or Eurofighters and join GCAP.
Would love to see some buy in on Saabs next gen project
Yes! GCAP. Still need a stopgap. Maybe stick with F-35, but reduce our commitment. Personally I like Gripen, but I’d differ to experts.
There is also FCAS, but it seems less urgent, not scheduled to begin delivering until 2040, although maybe France and Germany will get the lead out due to recent changes.
That’s an article from 2016.
Oh damn, I didn’t notice. Thanks!
Ford blew twice that to put beer in gas stations. Clearly we have the money to blow 🤡
I’d be hoping that Trump’s time in power would be far outlived by the F-35 program and would be only a footnote in the history of friendship between Canada and the US. But nobody who knows what the future has in reserve.
Trump won’t outlive the F35, but the distrust of the US will.
The US cut off military supplies to a country (Ukraine) during an active conflict. Trump did this as leverage in a negotiation. That’s a line that can’t be crossed, and he crossed it. There were no articles of impeachment, and most Americans didn’t pay it any mind. So this is how Americans do business now.
So we should expect the US to use military supplies as leverage in negotiations going forward. Using US equipment means CAF’s readiness is in constant peril for the foreseeable future. Currently it’s at the whims of a deranged old man. But it will always be a bargaining chip for future US Presidents.
The only way to ensure CAF readiness is to end the use of all US equipment. It’s not solely about Trump, it’s about what the US has become.
This is not ending in four years. The US has destroyed decades of trust you think it’s just going to come back after Trump.
Notwithstanding clause. Don’t pay a fucking dime.
Besides war declared by US, that makes US permissions on every flight a deal breaker, the plane is a POS, and we should be refunded for returning every existing plane we may already have. Cancelling deal for cause, with zero penalty, despite any contract is the right move.
Yes please. So clearly the right move.
