🇨🇦 Carney's Liberals locked into $1.1B American weapons deal in January — then hid it for months
Pentagon contract notices reveal Canada signed for HIMARS rocket systems back in winter, but conveniently buried the announcement until after releasing a defence industrial strategy promising to buy less American equipment. The formal paperwork was done, the cheque cut, the public statement drafted — then killed. Two confidential sources confirm it was pulled to avoid the embarrassing optics of running straight back to Lockheed Martin weeks before pretending Canada would diversify procurement. Classic Liberal theatre: promise sovereignty, deliver dependence, lie about the timing.
The army needs HIMARS and nobody disputes that. But Carney's gang wanted the capability without the political cost of admitting they're still writing blank cheques to the Pentagon while selling Canadians a fairy tale about homegrown defence. Transparency when convenient, silence when caught.
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