Termination Of The Avro Arrow

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not focused on the protection of North America. With the Soviet nuclear threat, the two national leaders came to the realization that they in fact needed to rely on each other in order to protect their countries. The Avro Arrow project was becoming increasingly expensive with an estimated cost of close to one billion dollars upon completion. With this in mind Diefenbaker came to the conclusion that the Canadian Government could not meet the expenses of both the Avro Arrow project and the Bomarc missile project; the Avro Arrow was terminated. It was criticized that the cancellation fees would have equalled the costs to complete the project in the first place. With Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s decision to cancel the Avro Arrow in 1958, came the decision to deploy two squadrons of the American Bomarc missiles, one in North Bay, Ontario and the other in La Macaza, Quebec. Some scholars argue that the Bomarc missile would be an effective replacement for the Avro Arrow. At first, ...

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and deemed inadequate prior to the Avro Arrow project. Another expense of five point two billion dollars later came to the Canadian government when the Voodoo jet was replaced by the CF-18 hornets; a plane which is still used in the Canadian military today. This is another issue that would never have arisen if John Diefenbaker did not cancel the Avro Arrow project.
An occurrence that happened shortly after the termination of the Avro Arrow project, which many critics and scholars consider to be rather suspicious is the construction of Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s bunker in Carp, Ontario. Warily, the very same year that John Diefenbaker terminated the Avro Arrow project, the ...

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