Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to tell Defence Minister Bill Blair to re-examine the contract that Canada signed almost two years ago to purchase 88 F-35 stealth fighters at a cost of $19 billion is yet another example of how Liberals always seem to stick their political fingers into the procurement process.

Canada finally made a decision after more than a decade of hemming and hawing to purchase these first-line fighters because of former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s promise, made during the 2015 election, that Canada would never buy the jet.