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As the Canada-U.S. trade conflict intensifies, the Canadian Armed Forces are facing scrutiny over procurement practices that heavily favor American suppliers. Senior officers are being urged to treat broader supplier diversification as a duty to Canadian taxpayers and national resilience rather than continue relying on familiar U.S. firms.
For Canada—and the CAF—to survive the current trade war, doing the same old thing with the same old U.S. firms just isn’t cricket. And if senior officers don’t understand that is part of their duty to all Canadians, well, enjoy the lecture circuit.
Fear from the Canadian Armed Forces that they'll be called to task for overspending on procurement means that they worked very, very hard to create procurements that are scoped to a specific solution, which are almost always from the United States, writes Jamie Carroll. By entering your email address you consent to receive email from The Hill Times containing news, analysis, updates and offers.
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