Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday that his government would not purchase early-warning-radar planes from the United States, opting instead for a European model.
Canada will purchase Swedish Saab’s GlobalEye, which is based on the Canadian-manufactured Bombardier Global 6500 jet.
Tensions between the US and Canada have been high since Donald Trump launched a trade war against the US’ northern neighbor and even suggested that Canada should become the 51st US state, which caused widespread outrage in Canada, just as Carney was seeking the post of prime minister and succeeded in getting elected to it.
Since then, the Canadian government has also opted ot review the planned purchase of US F-35 fighter jets to explore other options.
We are stuck with 16 F-35s, we can’t back out of that order AFAIK. There is enough political pressure, especially with threats by the US that they will disable any US built jets if they have to, that we will get the rest as Gripens.
Being stuck with the F35s sucks but good on Canada for standing up to their deals and not wriggling out of them.
Lockheed was unable to deliver F35s to the US Navy.
We are even honoring a massive LAV III sale to the Saudis. How are you supposed to operate in good faith if you break deals/contracts? Nobody is going to want to business with you anymore.
Exactly. That’s where trump wrecked it for his own country. Doing business with a rip-off artist is a fool’s game.
I did not even tie that basic business principle to him on purpose. Back in the day grocery stores, gas stations, etc. Used to have collections of pictures of people that wrote bad cheques to tell the employees who was blacklisted from paying with cheques. It usually took more than one bad cheque to get your picture on the wall too. The concept is so simple.