🇨🇦 Ottawa discovers Canada right after outsourcing everything

After years of shipping our industrial base abroad, Ottawa has suddenly decided that a $4.9 billion army vehicle program should involve Canadians. The Carney government quietly killed the open competition’s next phase and will invite only selected domestic suppliers, sidelining U.S. firms like AM General and Oshkosh Defence, as reported. Funny how national industry matters only when the political class needs a patriotic costume for NATO week.

The contradiction is the whole story. On the eve of the summit, they posture about strengthening Canada’s defence industrial base, then turn around and announce 12 submarines from Germany. So sovereignty is apparently a branding exercise: buy foreign when the deal is massive, wave the flag when the optics are useful. Defence Minister David McGuinty would not even explain the decision. Of course not. This crowd spent a decade hollowing out procurement, bloating bureaucracy, and treating national resilience like an outdated prejudice. Now they want applause for remembering Canada exists.

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