We need a strong, unapologetically Canadian defence industry voice—for the first time in a generation, we have one

The missing piece has been a policy and advocacy framework designed explicitly to help Canadian-owned firms scale into major contractors and system integrators.
There is a realization that we need to build and scale capabilities that allow Canada to defend itself on its own terms, write Eliot Pence and Paul Ziadé.

The federal government’s new Defence Industrial Strategy makes clear that Canada is no longer content to be a passive consumer of other nations’ defence systems. Canada intends to rebuild and rearm itself as a serious defence-industrial power. It comes at a critical time...

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