We call this confirmation bias.
The Saab is likely cheaper to operate as it's a smaller plane and Canada only has to patrol its northern border.
Open a history book. They do a lot more than patrol the northern border. Canada was involved in WWI, WWII, Korea, Iraq 1 and 2, Fall of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libyan civil war, Iraq civil war, Syrian civil war and ISIS conflict, Yemeni civil war, and a smattering of other conflicts over the past century.
> Canada only has to patrol its northern border.
At what point on this current trajectory in the US would that change... mostly facetiously, but not entirely..
"We call this confirmation bias".
I'm genuinely curious to know what you think the author's pre-existing beliefs are.
You seem to have a few of your own: "Canada only has to patrol its northern border"