24-02-2018 04:18 via ottawacitizen.com

Australia now seeking approval from U.S. to sell Canada used jets

Canada’s purchase of used Australian fighter jets is winding its way through the official process.
Pat Finn, the Department of National Defence’s assistant deputy minister of materiel, says the Canadian government has received what’s called a letter of cost proposal on the proposed sale of 18 used F-18s by Australia.
“The Australians have now gone to the U.S. State Department for the transfer under ITAR,” Finn explained to MPs on the Commons defence committee earlie
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