{"id":63558,"date":"2026-05-27T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/63558\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:03:13","slug":"canada-chooses-swedens-saab-in-defence-deal-over-us-rivals-pm-mark-carney-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/63558\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada chooses Sweden&#8217;s Saab in defence deal over US rivals, PM Mark Carney says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Canada is moving ahead with the Swedish firm Saab on procuring a new fleet of Arctic surveillance aircraft, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday, choosing the Stockholm-based company over US competitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For Carney, the move addresses two key priorities; improving Canada&#8217;s defence capabilities in the Arctic and reducing the country&#8217;s economic integration with the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By entering into formal negotiations with Saab on the procurement, Canada has sidelined two US alternatives: the Aeris X by L3Harris and the E-7 Wedgetail by Boeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The GlobalEye procurement will help us secure our North and build our economy at once,&#8221; Carney said at a defence industry event in Ottawa on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saab applauded the news and noted plans &#8220;to transfer knowledge and technology to Canada that will grow the domestic defence industry,&#8221; a message also shared by Carney.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney makes an address at the annual defence industry trade show CANSEC in Ottawa, 27 May, 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"808\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e760e767250620c8ebcadbbcde43ca0a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney makes an address at the annual defence industry trade show CANSEC in Ottawa, 27 May, 2026   &#8211; AP Photo <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadian premier has listed the Arctic as a strategic priority, warning Canada needs to rapidly improve its defence posture in the region, where geopolitical competition is rising, notably with Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But in choosing a European partner over a US firm, Carney may further anger President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, which has already voiced frustration over Ottawa&#8217;s decision to reconsider a multi-billion-dollar deal for a new fleet of US-made F-35 fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When US Undersecretary of Defence Elbridge Colby announced earlier this month that the Pentagon was suspending cooperation on an 86-year-old joint defence advisory board with Canada, he cited the stalled F-35 deal as an aggravating factor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carney says Canada&#8217;s historically close relationship with the United States has been permanently altered and Ottawa needs to diversify its economic and security relationships, insisting bilateral ties will not return to a pre-Trump normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada is moving ahead with the Swedish firm Saab on procuring a new fleet of Arctic surveillance aircraft,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[17,9407,12486,111,202,2084],"class_list":["post-63558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-canada","tag-defence-capabilities","tag-defence-industry","tag-mark-carney","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-saab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}