Canada’s strategy for its commitment to substantially increasing defence spending over the period to 2035 will face challenges. For instance, its ability to have its defence industrial base to fill that demand is impacted by Canada’s existing capacity; how in an innovation-intensive era defined by machine knowledge capital, Canada’s need to prioritize digital sovereignty programs; and with major categories of Canada’s manufactured products facing new barriers to entry into the United States, Canada’s need to pivot spending on traditional defence assets to help fill the emerging economic security gaps. Dan Ciuriak presents a proposal for Canada to not only defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity but its prosperity as well.
