Canada’s Armed Forces have to jump on the Buy-Canadian plane

For Canada—and the CAF—to survive the current trade war, doing the same old thing with the same old U.S. firms just isn’t cricket. And if senior officers don’t understand that is part of their duty to all Canadians, well, enjoy the lecture circuit.

Fear from the Canadian Armed Forces that they'll be called to task for overspending on procurement means that they worked very, very hard to create procurements that are scoped to a specific solution, which are almost always from the United States, writes Jamie Carroll. Photograph courtesy of Master Corporal Antoine Brochu/Canadian Armed Forces Combat Camera

Opinion

BY JAMIE CARROLL

September 21, 2026

OTTAWA—Want to fix Canadian procurement? Start by answering a simple question: who owns the requirements?

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