🇨🇦 Carney skips the competition, then calls it defence policy

Ottawa just bypassed a formal bidding process for six Arctic surveillance jets and went straight into sole-source talks with Saab, even though L3Harris says its Aeris X would integrate more easily with NORAD and the F-35 fleet, arrive faster, and create 1,100 maintenance jobs in Canada. That is not streamlined procurement. That is political theatre with a maple leaf stapled on it, as reported.

Mark Carney sells this as urgency, but the real absurdity is choosing a Swedish platform that still faces U.S. stealth-tech hurdles to function smoothly inside North American defence architecture. So after years of Trudeau-era decay, Canada now gets a made-for-headlines shortcut that may leave us more dependent on foreign approvals, not less. Fewer sovereign choices, more backroom procurement, and another elite decision dressed up as competence. The globalist class loves that formula: skip scrutiny, ignore domestic upside, and pretend national defence is just another branding exercise.

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