To the editor
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is sneakily looking for nickels and dimes in the pockets of Canada’s unemployed, but he is still committed to wasting billions of dollars on a problem-plagued jet fighter program.
The Americans are already training more ground-based drone pilots than high-flying jet fighter pilots. Those so-called state-of-the-art F-35 jets will be obsolete long before the horrendously expensive bills stop rolling in.
Perhaps Canadian historians will say the Lockheed Martin F-35 program was to Harper what the Bomarc missile system was to former P.M. John Diefenbaker. Surely, Mr. Harper would prefer to avoid being linked to such an embarrassing historical footnote.
Harper’s Conservative government is once again behaving like a bully: intimidating the unemployed and fawning over high-pressure Pentagon pitch men. Canadian taxpayers should be outraged.
Come on Mr. Harper; stand up for ordinary Canadians. Be man enough to admit you almost made a big mistake.
Tell Canadian taxpayers what we already know: the Boeing’s Super Hornet jet fighters are more than adequate for the RCAF and buying them will save billions and billions of dollars.
Lloyd Atkins
Vernon
