ID | 121248 |
Title Proper | Late learners |
Other Title Information | Canada, the F-35, and lessons from the new fighter aircraft program |
Language | ENG |
Author | Nossal, Kim Richard |
Publication | 2013. |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | Looking at the process that the Conservative government of Stephen Harper tried to use to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging CF-18 Hornet fleet with 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, it is hard to disagree with Andrew Coyne's assessment that the acquisition program was "a fiasco from top to bottom, combining lapses of professional ethics, ministerial responsibility and democratic accountability into one spectacular illustration of how completely our system of government has gone to hell."1 For the evolution of Canada's participation in the F-35 program-from the first memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien on 2 January 1998 to the so-called "reset" of the program in December 2012-readily fits the nouns the Canadian media so commonly used to characterize the F-35 acquisition: fiasco, debacle, mess, scandal, and shambles in English, or fiasco, scandale, incompétence, gâchis (mess), gouffre financier ("money pit") in French. |
`In' analytical Note | International Journal Vol. 68, No.1; Winter 2013: p.167-184 |
Journal Source | International Journal Vol. 68, No.1; Winter 2013: p.167-184 |
Key Words | Stephen Harper ; Royal Canadian Air Force ; Canada ; F-35 ; Canadian Media |