Mark Carney ran for office promising to spend a whole lot more on the Canadian military. Since being elected, he’s poured billions of dollars into defence, and plans to roughly triple Canada’s defence expenditures in the next 10 years. He’s also proposing to grow Canada’s defence industry revenues by 240%.
In part one of a two-part documentary, producer Imogen Birchard begins her investigation at Canada’s biggest defence and security trade show in the spring of 2026 to hear what those in the defence industry – and those protesting outside – think about the plan.