Die Kanadier wollen Verteidigungsgelder für kanadische Unternehmen ausgeben, nicht für US-Unternehmen oder deren Tochtergesellschaften

>The national poll conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights found that 82 per cent of Canadians believed Canada should “defend itself without relying too heavily on other countries.” The same number supported the Canadian government’s Defence Industrial Strategy to accomplish that goal.
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>Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his government’s defence industrial strategy on Feb. 17, 2026, promising to pump billions of dollars into small- and medium-sized Canadian businesses. Carney has also vowed to make sure Canadian firms get the lion’s share of defence contracts let by the federal government. The prime minister complained that currently up to 75 per cent of Canada’s defence capital had been used to purchase U.S.-built equipment.
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>“What we’re seeing is that defence procurement is a Canadian sovereignty issue,” Paul Ziadé of ACDC said in a statement with the release of the poll. “Whether you’re in Atlantic Canada or Alberta, whether you’re 25 or 65, Canadians are saying the same thing everywhere. We need to build defence equipment here to ensure Canada is not dependent on foreign suppliers and that taxpayer dollars support skilled jobs and manufacturing across the country.”

I do too, but we can’t supply ourselves completely. We’ve pissed a lot of domestic capacity away since WW2 as far as self-sufficiency goes – in almost every sector, not just defence.

Not just for the defense industries, any industry should focus on Canadian made products/Canadian companies.

I think a better approach is to join like minded countries and divide up the pie. Each becomes specialized in one or more domains creating efficiencies and scale. Then trade among the parties. Same level of industrial development but at a lower cost.

As long as there’s no replication of a purchase of a product like the LSVW fiasco.

The real goal of the US demands to spend 5% is to send them more of our money and get more dependent on their military equipment. None of which is in our interest. The biggest threat to our country right now is from the south. They don’t care about us defending against Russia, Trump loves Putin and would never offend Russia enough to risk a conflict. We need to show a credible defence of our territory, but do so using sovereign means and supplied by countries who don’t threaten us. Supplying from countries who threaten us is self defeating, you’re just asking for a supply chain disruption. If our gear costs more but is produced domestically, or at least from friendly countries who also buy from us, that’s aligned with our interests. Don’t kid yourself, the US military procurement is for corporate interests, not for defence. And we will never please this administration, they are pillaging their own country and they will pillage us if we let them.

No way!

Honestly we should be setting up crown corps for defense manufacturing. Keep the jobs here, keep the gouging out, and sell to other countries for profit

A nice sentiment but not entirely realistic sadly. We have fallen behind significantly in terms of military production capability and would need to spend several years re-developing these capabilities. So we don’t have a lot of choice in the mean time but to look to foreign companies for weapons, and US companies are very good at it. So for the moment, I think we should just go with whichever is best in terms of capabilities with a mix of US, European and Korean/Japanese hardware while developing domestic industries as much as possible.

The Libs destroyed Canada’s manufacturing sector and now Canadians want Canadian built defence products, that’s not what you voted for.

It’s not just Canadians that want this. I’m an American and would prefer Canada would do this whenever possible. Thank you for any support in boycotting any and all American made products. 🇨🇦🍁

We need to reinstate Canadian government arsenals. That’s the simple answer.

If a government dollar is spent and there is a local / provincial / Canadian supplier for that good or service, that should be the default. How is that not obvious?