{"id":249,"date":"2016-11-22T19:04:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/?p=249"},"modified":"2016-11-25T15:32:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T15:32:46","slug":"liberals-to-acquire-18-new-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/2016\/11\/22\/liberals-to-acquire-18-new-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals to acquire 18 new jets for Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Floriane Bonneville, Lauren Sproule and Bronwyn Beairsto<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan announced this afternoon Canada would acquire 18 Boeing Super Hornet jets to replace the military\u2019s current 35-year-old CF-18 jet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-250 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/slack_for_ios_upload_1024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"L-R: General Jonathan Vance; Defence Minister Harjit S. Sajjan; Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote and Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains in this afternoon's press conference. (Photo: Floriane Bonneville)\" width=\"344\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/slack_for_ios_upload_1024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/slack_for_ios_upload_1024-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/slack_for_ios_upload_1024-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/slack_for_ios_upload_1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sajjan said the government was not willing to carry the risks of continued reliance on the aging jets.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Hornets are an interim solution until the contract for a more permanent fleet is awarded in \u201can open and transparent competition,\u201d said Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Judy Foote.<\/p>\n<p>Foote would not say how much the planes would cost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harjit Sajjan speaks on the use of 18 Boeing Super Hornets in the Canadian Armed Forces by Shalu Mehta\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F294290106&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended this afternoon\u2019s announcement in question period.\u00a0 \u201cWe right now have a capability gap, we cannot fulfill our NORAD obligations.\u201d He said that it is necessary to get new jets \u201cto protect our sovereignty and support our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-1024x314.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"1024\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-1024x314.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-150x46.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-300x92.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-768x235.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image.jpeg 1684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=thedriftcu\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada will acquire 18 Super Hornet jets while the Liberal Government negotiates a more permanent fleet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-second-edition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/drift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}