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Cancel Super Hornet purchase, say defence experts

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute says 88 per cent of 75 military and defence experts it interviewed think the government should cancel this interim purchase.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan should cancel the government's plan to make an interim purchase of 18 Super Hornet fighter jets from Boeing, according to experts polled by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY DEREK ABMA

June 19, 2017

Almost nine in 10 defence and security experts surveyed by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute say the government should cancel its interim purchase of Super Hornet fighter jets from Boeing Co. The purchase of 18 Super Hornets was announced in November as an interim measure while the government takes u...

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