Canada Redirects Military Spending to Domestic Suppliers

The Canadian government plans a new defence industry strategy that will shift billions of dollars in military spending away from American firms and toward domestic suppliers. Prime Minister Mark Carney moved after rising tensions with the Trump administration, including tariffs and repeated suggestions from the president that Canada should become the 51st American state.

Carney has framed the shift as a response to a permanent “rupture” in the world order and a call for middle-size nations to cooperate. Carney already boosted military funding last June by 9.3 billion Canadian dollars to meet NATO’s 2 percent target and has committed to reach a 5 percent target by 2035.

The new policy says Canada will no longer acquire 70 to 75 percent of its weapons from the United States and will direct 70 percent of military spending to domestic companies.

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