Kanada zeigt US-Waffenherstellern bei Militärausgaben die kalte Schulter

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250% tariffs incoming as soon as the American arms companies can get 5 minutes with the prez

It should be noted that Canada is in the process of several substantive asset purchases from America:

* 16 P8 Poseidon Long Range patrol planes
* 24 HIMARS systems (I am not certain if the contract has actually been inked) and a large quantity of missiles
* 11 M9 Reaper drones along with 450 Hellfire missiles and a ton of other gear related to the contract
* The f-35 fighter of course and I am certain we are going to proceed with at least 1 or 2 more purchases at the rate of a squadron per purchase (so 14-16 planes per contract).
* The River Class Destroyer has a lot of American components in it, to the tune of billions of dollars.

The above easily amounts to 10s of billions of dollars.

I do wonder if we may back off the HIMARS purchase. I think the only reason we went with it is to obtain the long range PSM. Other allies are purchasing the Korean K239 Chunmoo system and I think France announced today they were giving it serious thought. Poland is producing the system and missiles and they bought 290 systems! Estonia and Norway are other purchasers that I recall.

I have an idea for the Canadian government I’ll happily go work in a domestic arms factory if it pays well as I’m looking for better work at the moment but I want a promise to be left alone, and keep mine.

I’ll believe it when I see the numbers. Talking about Canadian procurement and actually doing it are two separate things. We have a hell of a shitty track record to overcome.