Tag: F-35

OTTAWA, ON (January 12, 2023): On January 9, Defence Minister Anita Anand announced that Canada has finally approved the final contract ...

 After over two decades of Canada being a Tier 2 partner of the Joint Strike Fighter Program (JSF), the ...

This article originally appeared in the Hub. By Richard Shimooka, January 6, 2023 In the days leading up to Christmas, ...

This article originally appeared in the National Post. By Richard Shimooka, March 31, 2022 Defence procurement in Canada has long ...

This article initially appeared in the Vancouver Sun.  By Richard Shimooka, December 3, 2021 In recent days, it was revealed the ...

It’s a curious quirk about our politics: had this been any other policy area, it would be easy fodder for ...

In a recently published MLI report titled The Catastrophe: Assessing the Damage from Canada’s Fighter Replacement Fiasco, author Richard Shimooka ...

OTTAWA, ON (May 6, 2019):  In a hard-hitting new Macdonald-Laurier Institute report, MLI Senior Fellow Richard Shimooka takes a critical ...

If Canada is serious about improving its defence procurement system, it requires a comprehensive set of reforms that addresses multiple ...

The Liberal government’s fundamental flaw is that it has sought to oversee a fair  fighter jet competition where none is ...

Joe Varner, Fellow of the Inter University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, makes the case for the Auditor General ...

There are important lessons for Canada in the Danish government’s transparent, public and independently-verified acquisition of F-35 fighter jets, write ...