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Up front cash needed if Harper government intends to buy F-35 in 2018
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/national/front+cash+needed+Harper+government+intends+2018/9725094/story.htmlUp front cash needed if Harper government intends to buy F-35 in 2018
By Murray Brewster, The Canadian Press April 10, 2014
OTTAWA - The Harper government will need to start laying down cash next year, if it intends to stick with the current delivery schedule for the oft-maligned F-35 fighter jet.
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The plan to acquire 65 of the radar-evading planes has been on hold for over year following a scathing auditor general's report in 2012. It accused National Defence and Public Works of not doing enough homework and low-balling the cost of program.
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No delivery contract has been signed, but the partnership arrangement among nations requires them to put begin putting money down three years before the first plane arrives.
Because it was such lightning rod, there has been speculation the Harper government would postpone a decision on whether to proceed with the F-35 until after the next election in October 2015.