Jobs, guns, and the GDP: selling defence as economic policy
Carney’s Defence Industrial Strategy may deliver short-term gains, but it could compromise long-term policy and economic coherence.
OTTAWA—The best way to sell a major policy is to cushion it in economic necessity. That’s what Prime Minister Mark Carney has done with the Defence Industrial Strategy. The pitch is simple: growth, jobs, supply chains—military spending recast in GDP terms.
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