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For aviation buffs, this is most interesting and was in fact a defining moment in Canadian history. A movie was made dramatizing the amazing story of the rise and fall of one of the world's most advanced aircraft ever. Watch it here.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMnlnqRex4



Sorry, Keith, but that video is almost complete liberal fiction. It fails to mention any of these important facts:

A.V. Roe (Canada) Ltd. was always wholly British-owned. Most of their top people came from the U.K. and the head guy was Sir Roy Dobson in London, England. More than half of their engineers came from the U.K. as well.

The Liberals were the first to decide to cancel the program in 1957 but were defeated before they could act on the decision.

In 1958, the Canadian Chiefs of Staff recommended cancelling the Arrow and buying a more "economical" interceptor from the U.S. Buying the Arrow would have cost at least an additional $8 million each compared to the $2 million each that were spent on the Voodoos.

Finally, there is no way for a Canadian Prime Minister to fire the employees of any private company. Diefenbaker could not have caused the "Black Friday" firings. The company chose to do that for no apparent reason but they had tens of millions of dollars on hand so it was because of a lack of money.

The facts change the story completely. Canada wasted $400 million by giving it to Hawker Siddeley to develop a mediocre aircraft. It was one of biggest boondoggles per taxpayer in history, even beating out the U.S. Valkyrie program. That is our real heritage.