🇨🇦 Mark Carney creates new procurement czar with power to bypass accountability whenever 'economic security' is invoked

Ottawa just tabled legislation expanding military procurement exemptions from 4 to 14, handing the new Defence Investment Agency sweeping authority to sole-source contracts in the name of national or economic security. Translation: crony capitalism with a patriotic ribbon. The DIA can now suspend competitive bidding to support whatever sector cabinet deems strategically vital—conveniently timed as Carney's Liberals eye Swedish Gripen fighters and a manufacturing jobs promise. Defence Construction Canada gets folded in, residential housing gets redefined, and a single minister now wields unchecked control over billions in defence and infrastructure spending.

This is industrial policy dressed as urgency, accountability laundered as efficiency. When government expands its own powers to escape oversight in the name of security, you're not getting protection—you're funding the next SNC-Lavalin with a uniform on.

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