Canada needs to be part of the arsenal of democracy

The international security environment has changed with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre last year called for the Canadian defence industry to shift to 'a wartime footing.' This reflects the need for Canada to have domestic defence industrial capabilities to bring to the NATO table, writes Nicolas Todd, a vice-president of Policy with the Canadian Association of Defence and Security IndustriesThe Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NICOLAS TODD

May 29, 2023

One thing we learned in the pandemic is “just in time” isn’t good enough. Relying almost exclusively on timely access to offshore suppliers in an emergency proved to be a recipe for failure. Having a degree of built-in domestic industrial capacity is now generally rega...

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