F-35, an expensive mistake for the Canadian Forces

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[i] The Canadian Press, “Key election campaign promises so far from the federal parties,” CTV, April 14, 2011, accessed June 15, 2011, http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SpecialEvent7/20110402/key-campaign-election-promises-040102/?s_name=election2011.

[ii] Tolga R. Yalkin and Peter Weltman, “An Estimate of the Fiscal Impact of Canada’s Proposed Acquisition of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter,” Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, March 10, 2011, accessed June 16, 2011,http://www.parl.gc.ca/pbo-dpb/documents/F-35_Cost_Estimate_EN.pdf.

[iii] Alan Williams, “Let’s be honest about those price tag on those planes,” March 23, 2011, accessed June 16, 2011,http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/honest+about+price+those+planes/4487664/story.html?id=4487664.

[iv] “5^th Generation Aircraft Fighters” Lockheed Martin, accessed June 15, 2011,http://www.lockheedmartin.com/capabilities/air_power/5th-gen/index.html.

[v] Ibid.,

[vi] Defense Industry Daily, “Canada Preparing to Replace its CF-18 Hornets,” Defense Industry Daily, March 24, 2011, accessed June 15, 2011, http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Canada-Preparing-to-Replace-its-CF-18-Hornets-05739/.

[vii] Ian Austen, “In Canada, Opposition Grows to Purchase 65 Fighter Jets,” New York Times, March 20, 2011, accessed June 15, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/business/global/11fighter.html.

[viii] Alex Wilner and Macro Wyss, “The Case for the F-35,” National Post, May 16, 2011, accessed June 16, 2011,http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/case/4788002/story.html.

[ix] Richard Baker, “Jets dearer than admitted,” The Age, July 9, 2007, accessed June 16, 2011,http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/f35-dearer-than-admitted/2007/07/08/1183833344654.html.

[x]Williams, “Let’s be honest about those price tag on those planes,”

[xi] David Pugliese, “Defense News: F-35 Likely To Shape Canadian Election,” Defense News, March 21, 2011, accessed June 16, 2011, http://www.rideauinstitute.ca/2011/04/01/defense-news-f-35-likely-to-shape-canadian-election/.

[xii] Williams, “Let’s be honest about those price tag on those planes,”

[xiii] World Tribune, “Dutch Parliament shocked as cost of F-35 fighter rises to 120 million,” World Tribune, December 8, 2010, accessed June 16, 2011, http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/eu_military1218_12_08.asp.

[xiv] Ibid.,

[xv] Ibid.,

[xvi] Gene Laverty, “Finance Minister Says Canada Deficit Will Be More Than C$50 Billion,” Bloomberg, Sep 17, 2011, accessed June 16, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-17/finance-minister-says-canada-deficit-will-be-more-than-c-50-billion.html.

[xvii] Williams, “Let’s be honest about those price tag on those planes,”

[xviii] Staples, Pilot Error: Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada, 5-6.

[xix] CTV, “Canadian jets repelled Russian bombers: Mackay,” CTV, July 30, 2010, accessed June 21, 2011.http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100730/jets-intercepted-100730/.

[xx] Steven Staples, Pilot Error: Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada, (Ottawa: Canada Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2010), 6.

[xxi] Bill Robinson, “Canadian military spending 2010-2011” Foreign policy Series (2011), 4.

[xxii] F-35 JSF: “Can It Meet Canada’s Needs,” last modified June 17, 2011, Air Power Australia,http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-191010-1.html.

[xxiii] Ibid.,

[xxiv] Yalkin and Weltman, “An Estimate of the Fiscal Impact of Canada’s Proposed Acquisition of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter,”

[xxv] Staples, Pilot Error: Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada, 4.

[xxvi] Ibid., 4

[xxvii] Ibid., 4

[xxviii] Robinson, “Canadian military spending 2010-2011,” 4.

[xxix] “Peacekeeping.” Canadian Soldiers, accessed June 29, 2011.http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/history/peacekeeping/peacekeeping.htm

[xxx] Staples, “Costly purchase of F-35 stealth fighters wrong for Canada,” 3.