Carney govt to select private-sector ‘strategic partners’ in new defence industry strategy

Toronto Star: The federal government plans to choose a number of “key strategic partners” from Canada’s defence sector to get special support and access to contracts under the new military industrial strategy that Prime Minister Mark Carney was scheduled to release on Wednesday, the Star has learned.

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A senior government source, who spoke about the unreleased military industrial strategy on condition of anonymity, said the idea is to help create “anchors” for future growth across the defence sector. 

It’s one part of the upcoming “defence industrial strategy” the government intends to publish Wednesday, a plan that is meant to serve as a policy blueprint to maximize the domestic economic benefits of the massive planned increase in defence spending over the coming years…