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Mark Carney has announced a program to revitalize and alteration Canada’s military, moving Canada distant from the U.S. and towards European allies. What could a "transformed" equipped forces look like?
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· Posted: Jun 12, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: June 12
Front Burner25:48What’s down Mark Carney’s subject splurge?
For years present Canada's been badgered to pony up, and walk much wealth connected the military. Those calls person travel from our existent subject itself, our NATO allies, and much precocious the U.S. President.
Well it looks similar Mark Carney is going to propulsion retired the recognition card, and perpetrate to spending an other $9.3-billion connected the equipped forces by March, bumping our subject spending up to 2 per cent of Canada's full GDP.
Carney has besides pledged to extremity this country's reliance connected the U.S. for instrumentality by diverting billions of dollars successful spending to Canadian manufacturers.
The timing awkwardly coincided with quality astir an embarrassing foray into Canadian subject procurement: our plans to bargain a fleet of F-35 combatant jets from America that the auditor wide reported was billions of dollars implicit fund and years down schedule.
So, what is Carney's imaginativeness for the aboriginal of our military? And however superior are the threats against Canada?
David Pugliese, defence newsman with the Ottawa Citizen, talks america done it.
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