Yesterday new Prime Minister Mark Carney acceded to mounting pressure to reconsider paying US arms giant Lockheed Martin tens of billions of dollars to purchase 88 F-35s. The abrupt shift was spurred by concerns that the US has an effective “kill switch” over the warplanes at the same time as Donald Trump threatens Canada. No Fighter Jet Coalition campaigner Brent Patterson joined Talking Foreign Policy to discuss the F-35 win, shifting political climate and Canadian military’s ties to the US empire.
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