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“The government has consistently misled Canada about the true cost of this aircraft … all of what the government said has been shown to be completely and totally untrue,” Liberal Leader Bob Rae said Friday.

Liberal MP John McKay says the defence minister should quit for previously insisting that the F-35 was the only plane the Canadian air force should buy.

New Democrat MP Jack Harris also called on the government to immediately release the KPMG report. The report has been in the hands of the government for a week.

Last spring, the Auditor-General pegged the F-35 program cost at $25-billion and blasted the Harper government for low-balling the purchase.

Government House Leader Peter Van Loan says the government will stick to its seven-point response to the Auditor-General’s report, and will issue a report to the House of Commons before it rises for the Christmas break.

The decision on the jet program was to go before the cabinet planning and priorities committee Friday morning but the outcome was not in doubt, the source said.

PMO spokesman Andrew MacDougall took to Twitter Thursday evening to deny a decision has been made. “The government will fulfill its seven-point plan,” he tweeted.

The government is “awaiting reports that will be tabled as part of the seven-point plan,” MacDougall said later in an email. “Government will need this information to make an informed decision.”

The cabinet meeting Friday morning was to have established a communications plan for unveiling the change of direction to Canadians, Postmedia’s source said.