The Canadians are singing a different tune from a year and a half ago...
Oct 19, 2010, Minister Dan Ross:
Let’s remember we are acquiring a fighter for the next 30 or 40 years. I would ask whether you would want your son or daughter or future granddaughter in yesterday’s technology or in the most effective and secure aircraft in the future.
Let’s state the obvious: you must have more than one viable supplier to have a competition, and there is only one fifth-generation fighter available.
It's the only aircraft in the western world that meets the operational requirements of the CF.
... and when I say a different tune, I mean the difference between O Canada and The Lumberjack Song.