Building military aircraft in Canada would create more than 12,000 jobs, Saab tells Ottawa

Saab AB has delivered new proposals to Ottawa that forecast the creation of 12,600 jobs if the Swedish company’s two main military aircraft, the Gripen fighter jet and the GlobalEye surveillance plane, are built in Canada.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly confirmed that the industrial-benefits packages arrived in recent days and that the Saab pitch included building Gripens for Ukraine, which has said it wants to buy the planes, and possibly other export markets.