As a guy who knows the F-35 and the program pretty well, I think the best Canadian minds on the F-35 are Richard Shimooka with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute,

As a guy who knows the F-35 and the program pretty well, I think the best Canadian minds on the F-35 are Richard Shimooka with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and former CAF and F-35 test pilot Billie Flynn. Shimooka has a number of works chronicling the Canadian F-35 decision making process, e.g. https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/assessing-damage-canadas-fighter-replacement-fiasco-new-mli-report/ https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/assessing-damage-canadas-fighter... Billie Flynn discussing the F-35 and the current state of the CAF on "The Merge" podcast: https://youtu.be/kibWNHr9hdg https://youtu.be/kibWNHr9hdg