\u201cI call on all parties in Parliament to support these critical investments in our security and sovereignty. Our plan will help ensure that Canada is strong at home and reliable abroad,\u201d Carney said. \u201cWe should no longer send three-quarters of our defense capital spending to America. We will invest in new submarines, aircraft, ships, armed vehicles and artillery, as well as new radar drones and sensors to monitor the sea floor and the Arctic.\u201d<\/p>\n
These planned investments would directly support the Canadian Armed Forces, Department of National Defence, and the Communications Security Establishment, among other aligned organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senior Canadian government officials hosted a call with a group of international reporters after Carney\u2019s announcement to shed light on this new vision and high-dollar funding boosts.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, one senior official noted that \u201cthe total defense spend for Canada was projected to have been $53.4 billion this fiscal year [but] today, with this new investment, that number is poised to grow to $62.7 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n
The plan calls for investing $560 million this year to grow the Canadian Armed Forces Cyber Command, modernize the nation\u2019s digital resources and accelerate the military\u2019s AI deployments.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will spend $1 billion this year on critical systems that will make Canada increasingly self-sufficient in defending our territory, our citizens \u2014 and especially in the Arctic. This includes the over-the-horizon radar, joint support ships, integrated underwater surveillance systems, logistics and light utility vehicles and domestic ammunition production, to mention a few,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
New investments will additionally prioritize fleet maintenance, more weapons and aircraft and armored vehicles, infrastructure modernization and better pay for military and defense personnel. Further, Canada is also looking to build more capacity in the quantum and space sectors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith our Five Eyes [alliance] partners, we\u2019re very excited about the defense industrial strategy, because I think it will create new opportunities to work in secure and classified spaces that we haven\u2019t had before,\u201d a senior government official said. The Five Eyes alliance includes Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n
In response to questions from DefenseScoop, they noted that the Trump administration\u2019s new vision to build out the Golden Dome<\/a> next-generation missile defense system to shield the American homeland is \u201ccertainly top of mind for a lot of Canadians.\u201d<\/p>\n But the Canadian government\u2019s aims, in their view, are more about establishing integrated air-and-missile defense to protect Canada, as well as the military\u2019s commitment to North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD.<\/p>\n \u201cIn doing this investment, we\u2019re going to protect our sovereignty and our country, but we\u2019ll also be better partners in the NORAD enterprise, where we\u2019ll be value-added to the gaps that NORAD has. So our focus is integrated air-and-missile defense \u2014 arguably a subset of the wider NORAD contribution that we\u2019ve been doing for a long time \u2014 and we\u2019ll watch and see how the wider U.S. approach to air-and-missile defense evolves,\u201d the senior official told DefenseScoop.<\/p>\n Carney, who leads Canada\u2019s Liberal party, was elected in April to serve as prime minister. He built his campaign around promises to push back on President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs and calls for annexation of America\u2019s northern neighbor, and to strategically re-arm the nation\u2019s military to meet contemporary threats.<\/p>\n \u201cThe brave women and men who are protecting our sovereignty do not have the resources they need for a riskier world. Our military infrastructure and equipment have aged, hindering our military preparedness. I\u2019ll give an example or two. Only one of our four submarines is seaworthy. Less than half our maritime fleet and land vehicles are operational. More broadly, we\u2019re too reliant on the United States,\u201d Carney said Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Canada is set to host Trump and other world leaders at the G7 summit in Alberta early next week.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\tWritten by Brandi Vincent![\"Brandi](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Image-from-iOS-2-e1662581202907.jpg\")
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\n\t\t\tBrandi Vincent is DefenseScoop\u2019s Pentagon correspondent. She reports on emerging and disruptive technologies, and associated policies, impacting the Defense Department and its personnel. Prior to joining Scoop News Group, Brandi produced a long-form documentary and worked as a journalist at Nextgov, Snapchat and NBC Network. She grew up in Louisiana and received a master\u2019s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s recently elected government is moving to drastically expand and enhance its military\u2019s arsenal of emerging and existing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[11480,943,71309,52351,2129,2821,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-171311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cyber","11":"tag-five-eyes","12":"tag-mark-carney","13":"tag-nato","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114655640022179542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}