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The research group highlights four “sole-source or critical suppliers” among the 110 Canadian companies which have participated in the development or production of the F-35. Among these, Gastops, “a small firm headquartered in Ottawa, ON, is particularly of note.”

Gastops is the sole producer in the world of the oil monitoring and fan blade health sensors used in the F-35, which are key components in maintaining the reliability of the warplanes. The Aerospace Industries Association of Canada emphasizes that “this is technology that nobody else has.” The value of the contracts awarded to Gastops for the F-35 exceeds $100 million, according to the report.

The implication of these violations is that “companies supplying critical parts of F-35 aircraft to Israel, directly or indirectly, and particularly sole-source suppliers of these parts, are therefore complicit in crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.”

Retired Col. Brett Boudreau, a former senior military public affairs officer, said the decision not to release speeches is just a symptom of the ongoing failure by the forces to connect with Canadians. “The episode is just the latest in a long series of painful examples showing how far the defence communications enterprise has fallen,” he added. “This is a telling snapshot of the current malign mindset toward public communication by Defence senior leadership.”

The Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence have faced intense criticism for its increasing secrecy. In 2023, the House of Commons Committee on National Defence launched hearings into the lack of openness and transparency. The committee heard that DND and the military routinely violates the law by failing to release records under the Access to Information Act.

Poilievre might have reason to show fealty to Modi: confidential sources told Radio-Canada that Indian officials in Canada undermined the campaign of one of Poilievre's rivals for the Conservative leadership in 2022. Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, who had previously been one of the Canadian politicians closest to Modi, had begun criticizing the BJP's draconian crackdown on Indian farmers protesting agricultural reforms.

For India, a country with an increasingly militaristic and authoritarian government desperate to maintain its slipping label as “the world’s largest democracy,” Canada’s blessing is invaluable.

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