The province’s vast mineral resources will be critical to the country’s efforts to bolster its military, while its shipyards are ideally placed to build out defence infrastructure, François Legault said Friday. (The Logic)
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The province’s vast mineral resources will be critical to the country’s efforts to bolster its military, while its shipyards are ideally placed to build out defence infrastructure, François Legault said Friday. (The Logic)
Talking point: Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged to spend five per cent of Canada’s GDP on defence by 2035. Legault said the potential windfall is the result of the necessity “to be independent from the mister in the United States”—an allusion to U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex Canada. Caisse de dépôt et placement CEO Charles Emond recently said the public pension manager is looking closely at investing in the defence industry.
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