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Scott Taylor: New, costly defence strategy unveiled for Canada

‘Buy Canadian’ difficult for biggest expenditures

The Liberal government’s long-awaited and much delayed Defence Industrial Strategy was finally unveiled.

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To hammer home the gravitas of this major announcement, Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered the remarks himself while dutifully flanked by Defence Minister David McGuinty and Industry Minister Melanie Joly.

The driving force behind all this is, of course, U.S. President Donald J. Trump. From the moment he was elected to his second term in November 2024, Trump began the wild threats of annexing Canada.

The minute he was sworn into office, Trump unleashed his promised trade war with the imposition of punishing tariffs. His trumped-up justification for targeting Canada was the unfounded allegation that fentanyl crossing into the U.S. over the Canadian border was the cause of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens’ lives.

Trump also repeatedly referred to Canada as a “shirker” when it came to defence spending.

Reading the general mood of Canadians, Carney called on........

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