Ottawa is shifting from dependence to domestic strength... more Canadian manufacturing, more jobs, and a quieter but serious move away from automatic reliance on the United States.
That’s why Carney has been using his reputational knowledge and skills to build support and influence with European, British and even Australian military leaders. What is being forged is a strong multinational coalition of nations to deal with militaristic countries’ aggressive actions and policies going forward.
If only I was just starting my career in the defence sector now, since the future’s looking very bright. During the previous 40y we went from Canadian content rules (200 employees) to wide open procurement (0 employees)
It’s going to take a lot of TRAINING dollars too, a lot of dollars to improve living and working conditions in the CF.
That's the concern, the overall cost. As Fred indicated, 'execution is hard,' and often everything boils down to cost. I do hope that both Canada and Europe push forward for independence in this area.
6.6 billion that's a good tip.
We need a 160 billion.
Need to be totally self-sufficient. They need to control the supply lines and they gotta be controlled from inside of our nation by Canadians .
If you want a Korean sub then get the Koreans to build it in a Canadian shipyard.
If you want a German sub get the Germans to build it in a Canadian ship yard.
Same with all of our aircraft we should be building everything we need ourselves.
And we need an air superiority interceptor.
That should be our next project once they begin building the Swedish jets. Then design a new Air superiority aircraft And build those.
In addition to this we should be selling everything to our allies too just like we did during World War 2.
I think we need to understand how vulnerable we are to American retaliation when we reduce our military spending on American products.
That is exactly the reason why Canada needs to diversify its defence spending and procurement away from the US.
But if we're going to build submarines which is exactly what we do need to do.
They must be built on the Pacific or the Atlantic. Same with the service facilities.
We cannot afford to have our military assets trapped behind the Saint Lawrence seaway.
Personally I like Nova Scotia. Cost of living is lower there and wages are lower so cost is lower.
That’s why Carney has been using his reputational knowledge and skills to build support and influence with European, British and even Australian military leaders. What is being forged is a strong multinational coalition of nations to deal with militaristic countries’ aggressive actions and policies going forward.
If only I was just starting my career in the defence sector now, since the future’s looking very bright. During the previous 40y we went from Canadian content rules (200 employees) to wide open procurement (0 employees)
It’s going to take a lot of TRAINING dollars too, a lot of dollars to improve living and working conditions in the CF.
That's the concern, the overall cost. As Fred indicated, 'execution is hard,' and often everything boils down to cost. I do hope that both Canada and Europe push forward for independence in this area.