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Canada has finalized a $19-billion deal to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets to interchange its ageing fleet of CF-18s, ending greater than a decade of deliberations.
The primary F-35s will probably be delivered in 2026, and the CF-18s are to be phased out solely by the top of 2032, Defence Minister Anita Anand advised a information convention Monday.
The brand new plane are a part of a cope with the U.S. authorities, aerospace firm Lockheed Martin Corp. and plane engine producer Pratt & Whitney.
“The F-35 is a contemporary, dependable and agile fighter plane utilized by our closest allies in missions throughout the globe. It’s the most superior fighter in the marketplace and it’s the proper plane for our nation,” Ms. Anand mentioned.
“The F-35 offers pilots with enhanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, drastically bettering their situational consciousness and survivability in as we speak’s high-threat operational atmosphere.”
The fighter jet has a most pace of Mach 1.6, or 1,975 kilometres an hour, and a variety of two,200 kilometres. It additionally has a service ceiling of 18,300 metres.
Full story right here.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
THREE AMIGOS SUMMIT UNDER WAY – The leaders of Canada, Mexico and america are in Mexico for the Three Amigos summit, which comes in opposition to a backdrop of political crises in Mexico. Story right here. In the meantime, enterprise leaders are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his U.S. and Mexican counterparts to undertake extra of a “Crew North America” strategy once they meet in Mexico Metropolis this week. Story right here.
POILIEVRE ADVISED TO CONSIDER LESS ANGRY APPROACH – Federal Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre should do extra to draw ladies voters to win a majority within the subsequent election, together with “hitting the anger button” much less usually, say observers, together with a senior adviser to former Tory prime ministers. Story right here.
MORNEAU CRITICIZES FORMER BOSS – Former federal finance minister Invoice Morneau sees a vivid future for Canada. What he doesn’t envision is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau main the nation to this promised land. Story right here.
JAPAN’S PRIME MINISTER IN OTTAWA THIS WEEK – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s first official go to to Canada this week comes as Tokyo seems to be to Canada to supply much-needed liquefied pure gasoline. Mr. Kishida is ready to reach Thursday in Ottawa from London earlier than heading to Washington. Story right here,
FAMILIES OF FLIGHT 752 VICTIMS VOW TO HOLD IRAN ACCOUNTABLE – The households and mates of those that died when a Ukraine Worldwide Airways flight was shot down by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard say they gained’t surrender their quest for accountability and justice as they gathered in a number of Canadian cities to mark the third anniversary of the assault. Story right here. In the meantime, Canada is imposing sanctions on two Iranian people and three entities over human proper violations. Story right here.
NEW YUKON PREMIER – Cupboard Minister Ranj Pillai has been acclaimed as new chief of Yukon’s Liberal Social gathering and, consequently, the territory’s premier. Story right here.
COMMONS COMMITTEE MEETS ON X-MAS TRAVEL CHAOS -The Home of Commons committee that handles transportation points is assembly at 3:30 p.m. ET on Monday afternoon, to debate an opposition-backed request for an emergency listening to on the therapy of By way of Rail and airline passengers this vacation season. Story right here from CTV. You’ll be able to watch the listening to right here.
CLARK DEPARTS PATTISON JOB – Former B.C. premier Glen Clark has resigned from his government place with the corporate of B.C.’s most profitable businessman, Jim Pattison. “I don’t assume it’s large information, is it? I simply turned 65,” mentioned Mr. Clark. Story right here from the Vancouver Solar. Mr. Clark advised The Tyee – story right here – he could be open to working BC Housing, which develops, manages and operates backed housing within the province.
APPEAL REJECTED FOR NON-CHRISTIAN PRAYER AT N.B. LEGISLATURE – The New Brunswick legislature has flatly rejected a request for a one-time studying of a non-Christian prayer on the opening of an upcoming sitting day. Story right here from CBC.
THIS AND THAT
HOUSE ON A BREAK – The Home of Commons is on a break till Jan. 30.
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER’S DAY – Chrystia Freeland held personal conferences in Toronto, and was scheduled to attend a digital assembly of 5 Eyes Finance Ministers, chaired by U.S. Treasury Secretary, Janet L. Yellen.
MINISTERS ON THE ROAD – Worldwide Growth Minister Harjit Sajjan is in Barbados as a part of a Caribbean tour that can embody stops in Jamaica earlier than it ends on Jan. 14. Filomena Tassi, the Minister for the Federal Financial Growth Company for Southern Ontario, made a tourism and infrastructure announcement in Dundas, Ont.
PRIME MINISTER’S DAY
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau departed Canada for Mexico Metropolis to attend the North American Leaders’ Summit. After arriving on Monday, Mr. Trudeau was scheduled to take part within the North American CEO Summit, meet with Daniel Servitje, the chairman and chief government officer of Grupo Bimbo. The Prime Minister and Ms. Grégoire Trudeau had been additionally scheduled to attend a dinner given by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and his partner, Beatriz Gutierrez Muller.
LEADERS
No schedules launched for social gathering leaders.
THE DECIBEL
Monday’s version of The Globe and Mail podcast options Globe expertise reporter Temur Durrani speaking about what has gone flawed with Shopify, as soon as probably the most invaluable firm in Canada. The Decibel is right here.
PUBLIC OPINION
In his first Knowledge Dive of 2023, obtainable right here, Nik Nanos – the official pollster for The Globe and Mail – says Canadians assume the nation is headed within the flawed route, and that the discovering means hassle for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
OPINION
The Globe and Mail Editorial Board on how the Trudeau authorities’s hiring sprees want to finish: “The Senate, that bastion of sober second thought, made the information late final yr when it adopted a funds for 2023-24 that clocked in at a heady $126.7-million. The determine shocked folks inside and out of doors the Senate, as a result of it represented a 70-per-cent enhance over the funds in fiscal 2015-16, the yr the Trudeau Liberals got here to energy. In simply eight fiscal years, the annual price of the Senate to taxpayers has jumped from $74.5-million to its present allocation. The higher chamber’s administrative prices alone are rising 8.6 per cent this yr in comparison with final, a tempo that outstrips the nation’s elevated inflation price, which hit 6.8 per cent in November.”
Gary Mason (The Globe and Mail) on how, to nobody’s shock, UBC botches Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s departure: “This week, the college confirmed that it now not employs Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the celebrated educational, lawyer and former decide. As for why, properly, the varsity gained’t say, which, in fact, is ridiculous. Everyone knows why: due to the compelling proof that she isn’t who she says she is. Besides UBC gained’t say that. The college is hiding behind ‘privateness’ considerations, but advised Postmedia that the president’s advisory committee on Indigenous affairs is having ‘conversations’ concerning the matter.”
Louise Blais (Contributed to The Globe and Mail) on how Canada’s relationship with Mexico should transcend commerce: “As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador put together to take part within the North America leaders summit in Mexico Metropolis on Tuesday, this is a chance to mirror on the sleeper story: why Canadians and Mexicans don’t actually admire the untapped potential of their bilateral relationship.”
Don Braid (Calgary Herald) on how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trash speaking Alberta local weather motion is drawing a sizzling response from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is both clueless about what’s getting in Alberta, or cares nothing for the reality. That’s the disagreeable alternative in his inflammatory remarks about provincial motion on local weather change. “One of many challenges is there’s a political class in Alberta that has determined that something to do with local weather change goes to be dangerous for them or for Alberta,” Trudeau mentioned in an interview with Reuters, the enterprise information service with a worldwide viewers. That is trash politics primarily based on ignorance or fantasy, no matter you may consider Alberta’s “political class.”
Matt Gurney (TVO) on what the troubles of the Ontario Liberal Social gathering imply for the federal Liberal social gathering: “So now I begin to surprise. How a lot of the success of the Trudeau Liberals, since 2015, has been at the very least partially as a result of power of the Ontario Liberal Social gathering within the years earlier than that? What number of volunteers who gained robust ridings for Trudeau in 2015, 2019, and 2021 lower their enamel successful robust ridings for Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne? What number of candidates and employees discovered success as federal Liberals after spending time on the job as provincial ones? I don’t need to overstate the case; the federal Liberals may also draw on candidates, staffers, and volunteers from Quebec and the Atlantic provinces. It’s not all about Ontario. However, gosh, it’s so much about Ontario.”
Kaitlin Peters (Coverage Choices) on constructing an anti-racist child-care system in Canada: “At present, the bilateral agreements negotiated between the federal authorities and the provinces and territories to ascertain $10-per-day little one care decide to monitoring and reporting on inclusion objectives for weak populations. However these agreements don’t go far sufficient in specifying how governments plan to supply little one care that’s anti-racist in its programming and supply.”
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