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During a June 9 speech, Prime Minister Mark Carney repeated an earlier promise that Canada would be cutting back on using its defence dollars to purchase U.S. military equipment. The U.S. has become increasingly hostile to Canada, with President Donald Trump continuing with economic efforts to punish Canada and to push for this country to become the 51st state.

But there has been growing frustration among some Canadian defence firms that the Canadian military has ignored Carney's call to decrease its reliance on U.S. suppliers and instead diversify contracts to focus on Canadian or European companies. Canadian military leaders are extremely close to their U.S. counterparts and despite the prime minister's direction have advocated for increased ties to the Americans.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Given how good American companies are at profit maximization, do we expect American military equipment to be anything but exorbitantly overpriced?

[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Who else is going to put a senators kids through college? Bribes are needed.

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago

Time to retire those CAF leaders too tightly integrated with the US military industrial complex.

[–] Unleaded8163@fedia.io 4 points 7 hours ago

They're just helping us meet our % of GDP target.

[–] AGM@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Both our defence and our intelligence services will need a bit of cleaning out at the top. Both have long been too integrated and dependent on the US.