It’s vendor lockin on a country wide scale, from a hostile vendor.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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Cancelling the Arrow was major mistake. Was the Arrow going to provide monetary dividends from countries buying it? Probably not. Was the nature of war changing and the Arrow wouldn't fit in the new era? Probably. Was the Arrow going to cost a lot of money? Sure.
What the Arrow would have delivered to Canada was it's own expertise and knowledge gained by building the Arrow. Maybe Canada started building it's own jets after a few generation of jets or maybe pivots to building missiles and rockets. As a middle power, building and using rockets is expensive, maybe Canada starts looking reusable rockets far earlier.
The potential possibilities would have a net boon to Canada. Instead we got the classic MBA analysis of a political program. "We're reviewing the program strictly as a monetary cost-benefit analysis. The analysis says that this is not going to benefit to Canada."
This is what most politicians seem to forgot. Investments in political programs take time to bore fruit. Yes, it's going to cost money and budgets will be overrun. However, the chance to build homegrown expertise and knowledge is far to valuable.
The Arrow should have been cancelled, it would have been outdated by the time they finished it.
But that does not mean Diefenbacker should have shut down Avro.
But of course, name one Conservative PM who hasn't supported US interests at the expense of Canada.
As much as I love that airframe, I have to agree. The program was never going to be financially or strategically viable.
The largest blunder of that era was the amount of brain drain as engineers from Avro fled to the US for higher paying jobs.
What happened to Canada boycotting the US? The US cannot be trusted.
Too late, Carney already caved on the F35. Likely because this is nothing but extortion and whatever jets Canada buys really doesn't matter unless we abandon Canadian society and militarize with huge debts like the US.
In other words, become exactly like what we fear.
If some parts have to be ordered 15 years in advance you can not pin the purchase on a specific Prime Minister. We need to remove money from corporate donations from our political system, there should not be any influence permitted.
15 years in advance you can not pin the purchase on a specific Prime Minister.
of course we can,
The sale of the Canadian Wheat Board to Saudi interests was one of the most disgusting things he did.
The F-35 is not just an aircraft. It’s a system of systems. Software updates, mission data files, sustainment logistics, and upgrade pathways are all tightly controlled within an American-led ecosystem.
Read a book on the Arrow years ago that hinted that it was the only fighter at the time capable of taking out a U-2, and suggesting there was pressure from the US to destroy it so no one else could copy it. The program wasn't just cancelled. The parts were destroyed; the plans and schematics were destroyed. It was erased from existence.
We should call our variant the Saab 'Aero'.
If I hear about the Avro Arrow one more time, I run out as Elvis yelling "I'm alive!"
Doncha know, it would still fly circles around every plane ever built since? Fersure, fersure.
Elvis too. And he's also dead. Stop crying and deal with it. Nothing personal.