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Wednesday, March 06, 2013

After the F-35 debacle, are warship purchases next?

HMCS Ottawa (Halifax class) |The debacle of the Canadian government's decision to begin the process of spending spend untold tens of billions of dollars on a new fighter jet, Lockheed Martin's F-35, is by now a well-told story.

The untendered, F-35 purchase was declared a done deal several years ago by the Harper Conservatives.

It's all unraveling now. CBC Television's The Fifth Estate documented the saga in a great, one hour broadcast last September.

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