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Canada's massive military build-up: part...

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To help Canada's defence industry grow the way Prime Minister Mark Carney is proposing, another aim of the Defence Industrial Strategy is to increase Canadian defence exports by 50%. So what could happen when the world comes knocking on our defence industry’s door?

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