Bill C-40: breaking a broken defence procurement system

Canada is dealing with a broken procurement system in an increasingly dangerous world. Some things may have to be broken before they can be fixed. The greater danger may be to preserve a system that everyone agrees is broken simply because changing it makes people uncomfortable.
Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to have reached a fairly straightforward conclusion: Canada’s defence procurement system has become a vulnerability, and that vulnerability cannot be kicked down the road for another year, another government or another round of consultations, writes John McKay.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion
BY JOHN MCKAY
October 19, 2026

SCARBOROUGH, ONT.—Prime Minister Mark Carney may or may not have read the 12th Report of the Standing Committee on National Defence, A Review of the Impact of Canadaâ...

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