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<\/p>\nPrime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s government has been reviewing whether to proceed with a full order of 88 F-35 fighter jets for more than a year now. The review began not long after U.S. President Donald Trump launched his trade war with Canada.<\/p>\n
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Canada has already put money down for 16 F-35s.<\/p>\n
The Defence Department said Saturday\u2019s fly-past was meant to demonstrate the way the two countries routinely work together in the air as part of Norad, the binational continental defence command.<\/p>\n
Hoekstra, who called the jets \u201cthe most advanced aircraft in the world\u201d on Saturday, also praised Norad for keeping Canada and the U.S. \u201csafe and secure for 60 to 70 years.\u201d <\/p>\n
The ambassador noted during his remarks that Ottawa raised the U.S. flag, the Stars and Stripes, in front of its city hall for 24 hours.<\/p>\n
He also acknowledged \u201ca few little issues\u201d that linger between the two countries, including the trade war as well as \u201cthis bridge thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
In June, the Trump administration intervened in the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Ontario to Michigan \u2014 a bridge Canada paid to build.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to get over this. We\u2019re going to get through it,\u201d Hoekstra said. \u201cWe all, I think, hopefully realize we can accomplish great things together.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the jets flew over, Hoekstra also referenced provincial liquor agencies, such as Ontario\u2019s, that have banned American alcohol from their shelves.<\/p>\n
\u201cNext year, hopefully we can all take a toast of American bourbon legally in the province of Ontario, and toast the friendship and the relationship between the United States and Canada,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 4, 2026.<\/p>\n
Canadian Press Staff, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s government has been reviewing whether to proceed with a full order of 88 F-35…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-781589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}