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On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged that the status quo for supplying Canada’s military won’t do, and unveiled a new $470 billion defence industrial plan. The attitude is welcome after years of defence neglect, but everyone should be questioning his capacity to execute.

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A rough third of this funding, says the Prime Minister’s Office, will support “defence procurement opportunities” with the rest going to “defence-related capital investment opportunities” over the next 10 years. We’re told that defence exports will rise by half, that our own made-in-Canada acquisitions from the sector will grow from 30 to 70 per cent, and that 125,000 jobs will be created in the process.

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Currently, maritime fleet serviceability is 50 per cent, with the land fleet at 56 per cent and aerospace at 44 per cent. The PMO alleges that its plan will bring these figures up to 75, 80, and 85 per cent, respectively.

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