Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy, and new horizons for Japan–Canada relations

Japan and Canada share the vision of a ‘free and open Indo-Pacific,’ and a close partnership between the defence industries of both countries is coming into view.

Japanese Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi, left, and Defence Minister David McGuinty sign the Canada-Japan Equipment and Technology Transfer Agreement in Ottawa on Jan. 27. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KANJI YAMANOUCHI

May 27, 2026

At his Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in 1957, future Canadian prime minister Lester B. Pearson laid bare the dangers posed by nuclear weapons during the Cold War, and posed a stark question to the world: “The choice [...] is as clear now for nations as it was once for t...

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