Juno News - May 28, 2026


Conservative MP and Marc Patrone discuss Carney ditching U.S. Wedgetail


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00:00:00.000 well i'm sure you've seen the news now canada in talks with swedish aerospace giant sob over
00:00:06.160 the purchase of an aerial surveillance system what's your take on that i found it uh fairly
00:00:13.520 uh entertaining i was actually at cancer when the prime minister made the announcement i think
00:00:19.360 he made the decision hey i'm going to go cancer and give a speech and pat myself on the back and
00:00:23.840 got in front of the crowd and said i better announce something and so he announced that
00:00:27.840 they're entering into an agreement but with no details we don't know how many uh of the global
00:00:32.960 eyes we're buying we don't know when the delivery of these will actually take place we don't know
00:00:38.480 what the cost of the taxpayer is and um you know so it was very ambiguous so at the end of the day
00:00:44.800 it's much ado about nothing well there's also the issue of the americans and i have to ask whether
00:00:53.040 this decision is more political than anything else the prime minister has promised and you know this
00:01:00.080 to basically reduce our reliance our spending on defense uh suppliers from the united states
00:01:08.480 so here we are now opting for swedish companies surveillance system uh aerial surveillance
00:01:15.200 system and so is that an issue for her for you that that maybe this is more political than it is
00:01:21.200 practical? Well, what we've seen from Mark Carney and these liberals is that they've turned
00:01:26.820 everything into partisanship and politics. And every chance they got to take a shot at the
00:01:34.620 United States, they do. It's unfortunate because the Canada-U.S. relationship will survive Mark
00:01:41.020 Carney and Donald Trump. And this will continue on for eons to go. So, you know, we have to,
00:01:49.640 first and foremost, we have to buy what's right for the Canadian Armed Forces, what's in the best
00:01:53.720 interest of protecting our sovereignty and being a reliable ally. Interoperability is important.
00:02:01.080 You know, I think that the other main competitor there was still using a Bombardier platform,
00:02:09.560 the Global 6500. So, you know, Montreal-based Bombardier and their world-renowned 6500 class
00:02:19.640 jet liner is something that I think was going to win regardless. You know, they ruled out
00:02:27.400 some time ago about using the E7 from Boeing. So, you know, really we're looking at the two
00:02:35.900 options. So the L3 Harris option versus a sob option. So it is, it comes down to that, you know, 0.64
00:02:42.460 did they really do a competition? Not really. Did they sole source? It's not really that either. So
00:02:48.000 So at the end of the day, we got the worst of both worlds.