As the Carney government tries to breathe life back into Canada’s military and its industrial base with a new federal agency, it’s being told it needs to make the distinction between defence procurement and defence production.
The contrast in language may be subtle, but from a public policy and political perspective it would be a radical shift in mindset for a country that has divested itself of many aspects of the arms industry and has been reluctant to embrace and promote those sectors that remain.
The distinction is critically important as the Liberal government prepares to unveil the long-promised defence procurement agency.
