(Ottawa, ON) The cost of the F-35 stealth fighters will be much higher than the government’s figures, and will even exceed the cost announced last month by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), according to a U.S. defence expert and former U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) official.
Year after year defence spending has been rising. Increases brought in by the Paul Martin Liberals, and later boosted by the Stephen Harper Conservatives, have created a lucrative market for Canadian and international (especially U.S.) defence contractors.
For 31 years Winslow T. Wheeler has worked on national security issues for both the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and members of the United States Senate.