Juno News - May 28, 2026


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


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Canada in talks with Swedish aerospace giant Safran over the purchase of an aerial surveillance system. What's your take on it? What are your thoughts on the deal and what does it mean for the Canadian Armed Forces?

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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.