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Truth and Lies on Parliament Hill
I cannot tell you how the government effectively costed out the entire program because we were never privy to such information. But what I can tell you is that once the decision was made to purchase the F-35s, the government produced and distributed a one-page document in the fall of 2010—yes, a one-page document that was supposed to provide costing estimates for the jets.... We estimated the the F-35s would cost billions of dollars more than the government had projected in its one-page document—no small thing. The DND had pegged the number at $16 billion over a life-cycle of twenty year.... We estimated that a more realistic cost would be $30 billion over thirty years. Obviously, one of us was off base in our projections.