The Harperites aren't telling us the true cost because we would revolt. Or at least vote them out
Why is Norway Estimating $40 Billion for 52 F-35s While Canada Says 65 F-35s Cost Around $14 Billion?
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2011/11/ ... 4-billion/If that process is normal, Page said, then it's "broken. Completely broken. And wrong."
Officials gave one estimate to cabinet, he said, that included the full costs of the plane for the complete lifespan, but gave another estimate to MPs.
"To tell Parliament, effectively, to tell Canadians, that, well, actually it's a much smaller number, that's wrong," Page said.
Earlier in the day, Page testified at a committee that National Defence withheld information when he was preparing his controversial report on the costs of the F-35s, and he later indicated he thinks Canadians were misled about the true costs of buying the fighter jets.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2 ... ittee.htmlAuditor General Michael Ferguson released a scathing report on April 3 that was highly critical of the way the F-35 file had been handled, particularly the Defence Department's failure to reveal that the fighter would cost Canada at least $25 billion — $10 billion more than it was reporting to Parliament and the public weeks before the last federal election.
The Conservative government has admitted it was aware of the larger price tag weeks before the last federal election, but MacKay's comments are the first acknowledgment cabinet approved the reporting of a lower figure to Canadians.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2 ... ittee.html
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. You would be advised to butter up Boeing or Saab. Saab just landed the Brazil AF contract. I'd trust my life a pilot to Saab anyway, the Grippen has more test and extensive Arctic test and duty then the Frog of the French we surrender AF. If you really want a bad arse fighter, Go Sukhoi. That'll drive us nuts in the US 
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