CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton sits down with Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr to discuss the government's new military procurement agency.
Canada's secretary of state for defence procurement, Stephen Fuhr, said he doesn't think the federal government plans to get out of its contract to buy American-made F-35 fighter jets as 16 planes are currently being manufactured.
"I don't think that's the direction we're heading," Fuhr said in an interview on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live when asked if it's possible for Ottawa to exit the contract after getting the 16 jets. "But there'll be a decision and we'll make it when we're ready."
A spokesperson for Fuhr later clarified to CBC News he was
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