NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft

The NDP says it wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to cancel contracts for U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets — including the 16 Canada has already committed to buying. Citing Carney’s call for middle powers to work together in his World Economic Forum speech in Davos, Switzerland, last month, interim NDP leader Don Davies said Canada should instead purchase Gripen fighter jets from the Swedish firm Saab. “The bottom line is that purchasing F-35s from the United States will deepen our military integration with a superpower, not reduce it,” Davies told a Wednesday press conference on Parliament Hill. “As a firm based…