Corsair1963 wrote:ricnunes wrote:They are diferences of course but in general I would say that you are IMO absolutely right.
Moreover, in Italy there's currently a government that when was elected also promised to cancel the F-35! Yet when they reached the office they completely changed their stance regarding the F-35 (doesn't this kinda reminds/resembles the country starting with "Ca" and ending with "da" and with a "na" in the middle?) .
Yet, we could go on discussing the diferences and nuances between what happens in Canada and in the other countries or more precisely between each country but the fact is that IMO, what is happening in Canada also happened in many, if not most of other countries that purchased the F-35 and/or are JSF members (although again, with its diferences/nuances).
IMO, the biggest diference regarding the public/political perception/stance regarding the F-35 between Canada and the other countries is that the other countries already decided to buy the F-35 while Canada is yet to decide to buy it.
Actually, they did decide to buy it, then hold off and have a fighter competition, then not to buy it, back to holding another fighter competition......

Yes, you're correct of course.
However you should add the following somewhere in the middle of your narrative above:
- "then promised to get out of the JSF/F-35 program but this was reverted and Canada stayed as a JSF/F-35 partner"
Nevertheless, that situation above is not very dissimilar to what happened in Italy for instance.
For example in Italy they decided to buy it, then afterwards a new government was elected with the promise of cancelling the F-35 purchase and Italy's participation on the program, soon later it was decided to only buy a few F-35s (the ones that were contracted so far) and maintain Italy on the program and then reverting all of this back the full commitment to the F-35 purchase/program.
There are of course diferences between Canada and Italy but these seem to be due to:
1- When the Italian new government took the office the F-35 was already purchased (albeit a few) where in Canada no F-35's were still purchased when the new government took the office.
2- There's a F-35 factory (assembly line) in Italy and this changes/influences things quite a lot in terms of "speed" regarding a final decision to buy the F-35.
“Active stealth” is what the ignorant nay sayers call ECM and pretend like it’s new.