Campaign pledges can be hard to live by. And Canada's next prime minister, Justin Trudeau, elected on Oct. 19, is about to experience that firsthand. Trudeau's Liberal Party recently vowed to scrap the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in its military's hunt for a new fighter aircraft. But if Canada, one of the program's nine original partners, does not follow through on its intent to buy 65 F-35A aircraft, it is likely to feel some heat from its allies.
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