A Saab Gripen fighter jet flies at the Aero India show at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru, February, 2017.

Sweden’s Saab AB and Bombardier Inc. are in discussions to build the Saab Gripen fighter-jet in Canada, the Montreal aerospace company says.

Bombardier confirmed that the talks are under way after Saab chief executive officer Micael Johansson said in recent interviews that the company wants to expand production capacity of the multirole supersonic jet outside of Sweden. Canada is among the countries that might be able to assemble the aircraft, he said.

“We confirm discussions with Saab about the Gripen,” Mark Masluch, Bombardier’s senior director of communications, told The Globe and Mail on Friday. “Bombardier is open to providing local expertise if the government of Ca

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