Canada's quest to buy new fighter jets delayed another three months

Canada's long-running effort to buy new fighter jets is facing another delay. The federal government says today it is giving fighter-jet makers another three months to submit their proposals for replacing Canada's aging CF-18s.Keep up with the minority Parliament: Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletterCompanies were to have submitted their bids at the end of March, but will now have until June. Canada wants to buy 88 new fighter jets at an estimated cost of $19 billion, to replace the nearl