Does Canada beat plants with about 5% of North vows? Impossible

By anyone’s measure, $150 billion per year is a huge sum of money that can be spent on anything, let alone defense.

It may seem clear compared to the inflation-adjusted appropriations of World War II, but for this generation it may be Bring farming into a sword.

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The issue of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s administration hopes to achieve all of that money (yearly) is about to become a sharper focus after all of the political voices, anger and stickers hit at the NATO summit in The Hague last week.

On the surface, liberals have promised to quickly and effectively cultivate the Canadian army.

“We are protecting Canadians from new threats. I hope we don't have to, but we do have to, and that's our core responsibility as government,” Carney said at the summit.

“The people who have been making sacrifices are men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces because they are not paid to reflect what we want them to do. In many cases, they are not running with the right equipment.

“We made up for it.”

However, in federal agencies, this reflection is strong and can be used as a tool for economic development. So it has been decades.

At the same time, the Prime Minister is still told by the Prime Minister that we are in extraordinary times and “national emergency.”

A lot of things have been done, both in the NATO campaign and after the NATO summit Security and Defense Industry Partnership between Canada and the EU. Politically, it has been imposed since its election last spring to enable re-equipment.

Canada can unleash the potential of buying military equipment in bulk with allies to take a few steps before it can be done. But when you look at the framework of the partnership, Canadian defense contractors under the $125 million European Programme, the economic opportunity for Canadian defense contractors dwarfs the potential of reseeding.

This approach seems to be Canada wants guns and butter. Outside the great wars of the last century, they are not mutually exclusive, they do not have to be.

However, the material state of the Canadian army is that guns were needed yesterday (expanded metaphor).

In the long run, good economic and geopolitical significance has been established with Europeans, but it does not seem to be a solution to the immediate crisis crisis.

“There is no European industrial base at all at this time,” said Seth Jones, president of Defense and Security, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“If you look at European states, they still lack the ability to lift the air in combat support, short-range air defense and long-range indirect fires.”

Jones also noted that “ammunition inventory and supply chain weaknesses are facing significant challenges [and] In a wider European and American industrial bases. ”

If the Canadian government takes economic development tools seriously and not only does heavy duty, the question comes down to where you find the heat production line and how quickly you can get what the military says it needs.

Poland has been a member of the EU since 2004 and he doesn't think it will put all its eggs in the EU basket. Shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Warsaw government began a rapid heavy-duty program.

Poland is NATO's highest military woman, aiming to use 4.7% of its GDP for defense.

It has entered production lines in the United States and South Korea.

Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kamysz told Politico last winter that his government's strategy is to continue purchasing from the United States to maintain economic relations.

“It's an insurance policy,” he said.

The decision was made politically and socially, and many in Poland believe that the United States is an unreliable ally and may not exist in the Russian crisis.

For Canada, this may be a lesson as the liberal government crosses the dangerous political ropes that still maintain defense relations with the United States and explains its decision to the public who still desires the trade war and Trump's 51st state.

The first test will be conducted later this summer, when a report from the Royal Canadian Air Force and Defense Department will introduce the continued F-35.

Carney and his team will have to decide whether to break away from the plan (accept only limited fighter jets and fill in the rest of the orders elsewhere), or to stick to a position that might be politically irrefutable.

The Prime Minister said at the NATO summit that he had discussions with European partners to purchase fighter jets and submarines.

Speed ​​and shift

Carney calls for a shift from Canada's economic and military dependence on the United States

But what if the established goal is to re-cultivate quickly and Europe's defense industrial foundation is still in its own reconstruction phase, then is this the real possibility?

If the liberal government does intend to act quickly, there are existing mechanisms such as the National Security Exception (NSE), which enables the government to bypass certain trade agreement obligations when the equipment deems essential to national security.

There are also mechanisms for emergency operation requirements (UORs) that can be used to obtain necessary equipment on the acceleration schedule to meet the specific and direct operational needs of the Canadian Armed Forces.

It can also use a Pre-Contract Reward Notice (ACAN), which indicates that the Department of Defense intends to grant contracts to specific suppliers and allows other potential suppliers to prove what they can offer.

At the end of the NATO summit, Carney was asked if he intended to use any of these tools.

It doesn't sound like it.

“A big problem. The first thing we have to do is change the mechanisms of defense procurement, if I can say that,” he refers to the new defense procurement agency established by his government.

Once the agency is established, Carney said they will seek to “adjust our ability to buy Canadians and our ability to buy faster as appropriate”.