Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government is spending “nearly $2 billion” over the next four years on made-in-Canada armoured vehicles.
The planned addition of 190 armoured combat support vehicles will bring the military’s total fleet up to 550 vehicles, he said.
Carney announced the deal Thursday in London, Ont., at the Canadian campus of global defence contractor General Dynamics Land Systems.
The prime minister said every single vehicle will be built at the company’s Ontario factory with parts sourced from providers across the country.
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“All of those parts — each intricately crafted and built by Canadians from British Columbia to Nova Scotia — arrive here, on the London factory floor, where (General Dynamics) workers turn them into advanced armoured combat vehicles,” Carney said.
The prime minister said this purchase is an example of his government’s defence industrial strategy, which seeks to build out Canada’s national security capabilities using domestic suppliers whenever possible.
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Carney claimed the strategic partnership with General Dynamics will “create and sustain” 6,000 jobs over the next eight years.
Ottawa bought 360 armoured vehicles from General Dynamics in 2019, with delivery set to be completed by the end of 2025.
Canada’s armoured fleet has been deployed in various missions abroad and Carney announced last week that 35 of the vehicles will be built to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia.
….and are we going to simply keep printing money so we can keep prices extremely high, and have our already ludicrous tax amounts to keep funding fraud and abuse?
They should be made outside of Canada. 90% of that price will go to unions. Wages and benefits nothing to show for again.
The cost could be halved by importing the steel, tires & parts from countries without carbon, plastic and packaging taxes.
General Dynamics Land Systems Canada is an American Company. It’s nice they will be using Canadians to build them. Hopefully they will use Canadian Steel.
Pay way more tax dollars than necessary just for a little virtue signalling.. the LPC has not changed a bit!
Canada strong!
So where will these vehicles go? Canada doesn’t have transport planes. Just a few frigates in the navy. So these vehicles will be stranded in Canada.
That’s over 10,0000,000 per vehicule. Why?
Sending Canadian military equipment to help prolong the war in Ukraine. Just when he was going to get brownie points for buying Canadian hardware. – we need to help end the war, not prolong it. No more Ukrainians need to die because of Zelenskyy. Canada should be helping establish peace, not war.
Canada is from nfld to bc not nova scotia to bc.