‘Everyone wants to know what’s going on,’ stakeholders struggling to get through to government on fighter-jet replacement program

Lobbyists and representatives for the defence industry are keen to hear more from government, given all the speculation lately on how the government plans to deal with its aging fleet of CF-18 jets.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan's office is indicating that no decisions have been made on how it will go about replacing its aging fleet of CF-18 fighter jets. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY DEREK ABMA

June 20, 2016

Lobbyists in Ottawa say they're hoping to get more feedback from the federal government on replacing Canada’s fleet of fighter jets, but so far it's been relatively quiet on the multi-billion-dollar and politically sensitive acquisition. While the Liberal government has earned a reputation for...

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