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As someone who had worked with both research and procurement agencies in the Canadian government, I'm surprised the author was able to hold their tongue until the middle of the article.

How is it not topical to mention that a government-led research project failed to accomplish with their own data trove what a private organization did with it, when the whole article is about that very data and that private organization's achievement?

That is not the paragraph I'm discussing. I'm talking about the one that mentions the "years-long saga of obtaining new military jets."

It's a reference to the Avro Arrow, which is a bitter pill in Canadian history for government mismanagement.

No, it's about the current CF-188 replacement procurement and waffling on buying the F-35s.

OP is right, nevertheless.