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Prime Minister Mark Carney asked for a review of Canada’s plans to purchase a fleet of F-35 fighter jets.
Lockheed Martin’s contract with the US government is 88 planes each costing around US$85 million.
A spokesman for Defense Minister Bill Blair says Carney asked Blair to find out if the F-35 contract is Canada’s best investment, or if there is a better option.
Blair spokesman Laurent de Casanob says the government should do homework in consideration of “changes in the environment.”
The contract has not been cancelled and Canada is legally committed to purchasing the first 16 aircraft, De Casanove said.
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Carney became prime minister on Friday amid a trade war with the United States, and was a threat to the US President Donald Trump by US President Donald Trump.
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