An American A-10 warplane, nicknamed either Thunderbolt II or Warthog, depending on who you ask, flies over Toronto. A two-seat version of this slow but rugged twin-engine is exactly the plane that Canada should be buying for arctic and maritime patrol – much better than a cold-war style figher jet that costs over $75 million each. Stealthy planes that can carry just a handful of air-to-air missiles as they break the sound barrier while flying straight up just aren't all that important any more.
Use the savings from not having the cutting-edge jets to keep a reduced fleet of fast CF-188's in service, and buy a bunch more C-130 Hercules as well – unlike all of these other planes, those ones are actually useful.
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