Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’: should Canada become a junior partner?

The Golden Dome could cost more than the entire current U.S defence budget, for a system that will remain unproven.

Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters in Ottawa on May 21 that Canada is looking into the possibility of participating in the U.S. President Donald Trump's 'Golden Dome' missile defence program.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ALISTAIR EDGAR

November 20, 2025

It's a remarkably easy answer: no. The reasons mostly are similar to those that were raised for then-United States president Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative proposal four decades ago in 1983, with the new addition in this case of the absence of any good reason t...

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