Liberals are playing silly games with the military again: Full Comment podcast

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Canada’s reputation for politically driven flip-flopping over important military purchases is getting bad, especially given Ottawa’s plans to dramatically beef up our forces. And here we go again: the Liberals, after cancelling the purchase of the F-35 next-generation fighter jet, then reversing years later, are considering cancelling again to spite a U.S. president who will be gone in 2028. Brian Lilley talks with David Bercuson, director of the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, and Alan Williams, former assistant deputy minister of materiel at the Department of National Defence. They