U.S. pressure ‘lighting a fire’ under Ottawa to get major defence procurement projects moving, says expert, as trade war escalates

Amid the tariff tiff with the U.S., 'there’s a sudden realization that...Canada may actually be on its own,' which may be speeding things up, says Adam Lajeunesse.
Bill Blair
The Department of National Defence, led by Minister Bill Blair, signed two major contracts in March to purchase a polar icebreaker and destroyers to replace the Navy's aging fleet.

With a federal election on the horizon and rising pressure from the White House, the federal government’s decision to push ahead with two major defence procurements is both timely and critical, experts say as America's president escalates his tariff war.

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