{"id":61820,"date":"2015-09-23T01:33:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61820"},"modified":"2015-09-23T01:33:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:33:52","slug":"harper-mulcair-blast-trudeau-for-promising-to-scrap-stealth-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/23\/harper-mulcair-blast-trudeau-for-promising-to-scrap-stealth-fighter-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper, Mulcair blast Trudeau for promising to scrap stealth fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60368\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FedElxn-three.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60368\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FedElxn-three.jpg\" alt=\"Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and NDP leader Tom Mulcair (Facebook photos)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FedElxn-three.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FedElxn-three-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and NDP leader Tom Mulcair (Facebook photos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The politics of military procurement preoccupied the federal leaders Monday as they fired rhetorical missiles at each other over the future of Canada&#8217;s ill-fated attempt to buy new fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Harper and Tom Mulcair both blasted Justin Trudeau for announcing a day earlier he would scrap the multibillion-dollar purchase of F-35 stealth fighters to replace the current aging fleet of CF-18s.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative and NDP leaders both said it showed a lack of judgment by the Liberal leader.<\/p>\n<p>Harper questioned &#8220;what planet&#8221; Trudeau was living on, while Mulcair said Trudeau was pre-judging the public tendering process.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the F-35 purchase would cost taxpayers about $44 billion over the four-decade lifespan of the Lockheed Martin jets.<\/p>\n<p>The F-35 project is on hold after the auditor general offered a scathing critique of the procurement, so the military is working to extend the lifespan of the current CF-18 fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The politics of military procurement preoccupied the federal leaders Monday as they fired rhetorical missiles at each other &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":60368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}