No Canadian Fighter Jets

There are times when you read stories about facts you did not have a clue about. For instance, I did not know Canada had had a shot at building state of the art fighter jet airplanes in the late 1950’s. The programme was cancelled due to the high costs. In Sweden, an even smaller country, fighter jets were built by Saab. I guess it was the wish of Sweden to have its own jets as a country outside of military alliances that made the difference. Canada was and is a member of Nato. I wonder what would have happened, had the programme not been cancelled.