Tom Lawson, a former chief of the defence staff who supports the F-35 deal, said there’s no doubt the combat capability of the Lockheed jet was well ahead of Saab’s Gripen.
“What a wonderful thing to unload on Canadians, to say, ‘If we held the competition again today, we would match up much better,’ because they know we’re not going to have another competition,” he said.
Then release the 2021 report publically so that Canadians can feel confident the military and the feds aren't lying to us.