Looks like Canada may the first of the "locked in" nations to bail on that expensive POS the F-35 and opt for something more realistic (and useful).
Rafale is being pushed quite heavily by Dassault as a CF-18 replacement, with considerable industrial and financial benefits to boot.
Apart from the fact that Rafale would be a genuine replacement (F-35 is little more than warmed-over F-105 1), it's a true multi-role (omni-role in Dassault's publicity) aircraft, and it's also combat proven as opposed to being, still, a largely "paper aeroplane".
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that more partners see sense 2 and jump ship.
1 In the words of one Australian defence writer.
2 FFS I told Lockheed Martin's people nearly two decades ago that it was a crap idea!