Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government is spending “nearly $2 billion” over the next four years on made-in-Canada armoured vehicles.
The planned addition of 190 armoured combat support vehicles will bring the military’s total fleet up to 550 vehicles, he said.
Carney announced the deal Thursday in London, Ont., at the Canadian campus of global defence contractor General Dynamics Land Systems.
The prime minister said every single vehicle will be built at the company’s Ontario factory with parts sourced from providers across the country.
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“All of those parts — each intricately crafted and built by Canadians from British Columbia to Nova Scotia — arrive here, on the London factory floor, where (General Dynamics) workers turn them into advanced armoured combat vehicles,” Carney said.
The prime minister said this purchase is an example of his government’s defence industrial strategy, which seeks to build out Canada’s national security capabilities using domestic suppliers whenever possible.
Carney claimed the strategic partnership with General Dynamics will “create and sustain” 6,000 jobs over the next eight years.
Ottawa bought 360 armoured vehicles from General Dynamics in 2019, with delivery set to be completed by the end of 2025.
Canada’s armoured fleet has been deployed in various missions abroad and Carney announced last week that 35 of the vehicles will be built to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia.
$7,368,421 each is a bit much, perhaps that how we get to 2% GDP spent on defense. Over inflate the value to bring it line with our commitment to NATO…
Maybe we wouldn’t need to buy so many if we stopped giving them away 🤷
Is general dynamics not a us owned company
Liberal voters the useful idiots to the liberal party trained by the Legacy media who are nothing but an opinion. Variety show dressed up as news. The elbozos get laughed at behind closed doors by the same party they voted for for being the biggest suckers in a generation. Elbows up useful idiots
Another flowery announcement from the Liberal party. Another tax dollar black hole. Using our money that we know nothing about. All we get is a headline and a few cheap words from a shyster banker. And then that money disappears poof. You work hard. Get nothing for it , no accountability, no transparency, no paperwork, no audits just keep forking it over and keep voting for these liberals. Good job Canada. Who cares right as long as your elbows are up. Who cares where our money goes. This country is full of fools
10,500,000 each
This is the liberal plan to keep us all in line. They will use these against us. Every real Canadian will stand behind me in saying we don’t want the liberal military agenda! We should be taking care of people at home. Traditional values people. Liberals want you to give up all of our money for carney bombs and pipelines… don’t fall for it!
how much per vehicle off the lot ( not the maintenance & repair over decades) Was the contract open to all Canadian firms in all provinces & not another Liberal sweetheart insider set up contract? Journalism is not re-printing press releases.
Good to see Carney has come around and doing business with the US again.
Funny that the news article didn’t mention that the company is US.
Almost like they left it out on purpose. Hmmm. Almost like they get funding from the Govt.
It will only take 20 years for them to get built
This isn’t really a headline. This “planned addition” is likely to replace the ACSV’s that were donated to Ukraine right off the assembly line instead of being delivered to the army.
MAGA traitors don’t like Canada getting strong.
More money on military for what?
When was the last time we were threatened with invasion?
Oh yeah Trump and his blather.
Why not protect our country from wildfires and build fire fighting equipment? Oops that would make sense.
That’s fantastic, now all this company needs to do is find an export market!
Nice to see, Carney is of the opinion from sea to shining sea, however in his view as evidenced by his commentary on this great big Canadian armoured vehicle deal, the Atlantic Ocean ends at Nova Scotia…
$2b for 90 armored vehicles is just over $22m each. Something wrong with the numbers or does this include all the corruption cost?
….and are we going to simply keep printing money so we can keep prices extremely high, and have our already ludicrous tax amounts to keep funding fraud and abuse?
They should be made outside of Canada. 90% of that price will go to unions. Wages and benefits nothing to show for again.
The cost could be halved by importing the steel, tires & parts from countries without carbon, plastic and packaging taxes.
General Dynamics Land Systems Canada is an American Company. It’s nice they will be using Canadians to build them. Hopefully they will use Canadian Steel.
Pay way more tax dollars than necessary just for a little virtue signalling.. the LPC has not changed a bit!
Canada strong!
So where will these vehicles go? Canada doesn’t have transport planes. Just a few frigates in the navy. So these vehicles will be stranded in Canada.
That’s over 10,0000,000 per vehicule. Why?
Sending Canadian military equipment to help prolong the war in Ukraine. Just when he was going to get brownie points for buying Canadian hardware. – we need to help end the war, not prolong it. No more Ukrainians need to die because of Zelenskyy. Canada should be helping establish peace, not war.
Canada is from nfld to bc not nova scotia to bc.