{"id":98511,"date":"2026-06-22T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/98511\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:41:08","slug":"canada-prime-minister-mark-carney-snubs-us-to-sign-1-75b-long-range-radar-deal-with-australia-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/98511\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney snubs US to sign $1.75B long-range radar deal with Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia<\/a> and Canada<\/a> have signed a $1.75 billion (\u00a31.38bn) export agreement to build an Australian-designed long-range radar system.<\/p>\n

The deal, inked on Monday by Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and Canadian Secretary of State (Defense Procurement) Stephen Fuhr, marks the first phase of a pact to provide early warning radar coverage from the Canada-United States<\/a> border into the Arctic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“What this really means is that Australia and Canada are now partners in terms of the future development of the Over-the-Horizon Radar,” Marles told reporters at the Australian Parliament House in the capital Canberra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“There is now a very strategic dimension to the relationship,” Marles added.<\/p>\n

Fuhr said the two British Commonwealth countries, both of which are partners in the Five Eyes<\/a> intelligence-sharing alliance that also includes the United States, Britain<\/a> and New Zealand<\/a>, had “stood shoulder-to-shoulder for generations.”<\/p>\n

\"Australian<\/p>\n

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and Canadian Secretary of State Stephen Fuhr have signed the key strategic deal (AP)<\/p>\n

“As the world adjusts to its new strategic and economic realities, I can’t think of a stronger partner to work with more than Australia,” Fuhr said at a joint press conference with Marles.<\/p>\n

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> announced he’d chosen Australia’s radar system over comparable U.S. technology shortly after he came to power last year.<\/p>\n

In March, Carney became the first Canadian prime minister to visit Australia in 12 years.<\/p>\n

During the visit, Carney and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese<\/a> agreed to increase cooperation on defense technologies, artificial intelligence and critical minerals.<\/p>\n

BAE Systems Australia said in a statement it will support both governments in developing the Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar.<\/p>\n

The Australian system, developed over 40 years, works by refracting high-frequency electromagnetic waves off the ionosphere to detect distant objects that are invisible to conventional radars because of Earth<\/a>‘s curvature.<\/p>\n

The deal is Australia’s largest ever defense export. Australia’s previous record defense export was a $700 million deal signed in 2024 to provide Germany<\/a> with 100 Australian-made Boxer heavy weapon carrier vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia and Canada have signed a $1.75 billion (\u00a31.38bn) export agreement to build an Australian-designed long-range radar system.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[367,36072,36013,822,36073,11817,111,36015,36014,36017],"class_list":["post-98511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-australia","tag-australian-parliament-house","tag-bae-systems-australia","tag-canadian-prime-minister","tag-canadian-secretary-of-state","tag-defense-procurement","tag-mark-carney","tag-radar-system","tag-richard-marles","tag-stephen-fuhr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98511","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=98511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}