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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk

@CDNPolicyHawk

Great day to be Canadian. I write about the intersection of Defence, Economics, and Politics from a Canadian point of view. https://t.co/jjHoI83HVF

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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
Canada can have a defence industry that is purely Canadian, or one that actually works. Right now, it’s at risk of choosing wrong. I explore this topic in a new piece, The “Canadian enough” Trap, over on my Substack. I hope you read and enjoy! (link below)
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Colt Canada is specifically contracted with maintaining a domestic small arms manufacturing capability for Canada. We just awarded them a $307m contract for rifles. But it's only generating $50m in GDP for Canada. Something doesn't add up.
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The CAF needs new rifles, and I'm glad to see a contract awarded. But at a time when we're supposed be building up the Canadian defence sector, I have questions about the disconnect between how large this contract is vs how little economic activity its claimed it will create. 1/

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I'm told by people who I'm inclined to believe have familiarity with Colt Canada's work that I'm wrong about the manufacturing being done outside Canada. I'd still like an explanation from the government on the economics of this.
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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
Canada is compensating a company to ensure we have the domestic capability to manufacture military-grade small arms. We should have that capability. If, as this moment seems to indicate, we don't: That needs to be fixed. /fin
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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
Unless there's an alternate explanation I can't see, the fact that little to none of the manufacturing related to this order seems to be happening in Canada suggests they're not holding up their end of that bargain. If not, that should be rectified. 5/
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Aamir M@AamirMo·
@CDNPolicyHawk Colt Canada is part of a Czech multinational, so bear in mind that only the costs stay in Canada as GDP contribution and all of the profits from the contract will be repatriated to the parent business in Prague.
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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
@JankyBowlz I'm open to other interpretations, I just can't come up with a plausible on based on the information provided.
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The CAF needs new rifles, and I'm glad to see a contract awarded. But at a time when we're supposed be building up the Canadian defence sector, I have questions about the disconnect between how large this contract is vs how little economic activity its claimed it will create. 1/
National Defence@NationalDefence

Canada is modernizing the @CanadianForces. The Defence Investment Agency awarded a contract to Colt Canada to acquire up to 65,402 modern rifles under the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle initiative. Learn more: canada.ca/en/defence-inv…

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Irwin M Fletcher@IMFletch_1967·
@Winter_Six Probably something like that. Seems like if they can lock on and shoot down an F35, a B52 would be trivial!
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David Lambert@Winter_Six·
WHAT I THINK HAPPENED: 1). Regular F-35 flight gets cancelled midair because the pilot noticed something wrong with his plane. Squawked on their emergency channel and flew to a friendly base.
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@colblake_yqr Government spending is a direct component of GDP. The only way for the net GDP impact to be less than the spending is for that spending to be offset be imports of goods or services.
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colonelblake@colblake_yqr·
@CDNPolicyHawk pretty sure GDP is gross domestic PRODUCT. cnd paid colt to design, develop, maintain build and rnd a new system. after the results are in, the product produced will be worth 50M in product.
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Anthony Farrow@APharaoh89·
#Colt Canada serves as the primary supplier for @NATO and allied nations looking for high-reliability weapons, with many rifles having seen extensive combat action. #Ontario’s very own, serving #Canada and Allies around the globe. 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 🇨🇦
LGen Michael Wright, CCA/CAC@Army_Comd_Armee

Today's announcement is a win for Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces. Rifles remain foundational to soldier effectiveness in the field, and this development brings over 40 years of technology evolution to Canada's fighting forces. 1/3

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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
@rfdctr I could see there being some new tooling necessary, and some legacy IP. But, with admittedly limited knowledge of the industry, that breakdown seems pretty unreasonable to me.
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@rfdctr So you think all the manufacturing, and 80% of the content is covered by 16% of the budget... While the other 84% of the budget is IP licensing (didn't we pay to develop this design?) and new tooling that has to come from overseas (at a place that's already set up for rifles)?
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@Mattl8241 I'm unclear what you're asking? A government contract for $307m of goods and services will generate $307m in GDP if the work it happening in Canada. The only way it doesn't is if the work is being done elsewhere. The $50m figure means most of the work is happening elsewhere.
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Zodiac41@Mattl8241·
@CDNPolicyHawk How so? This wpuld also include training, tooling, technical documents etc
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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
@thewarylemming Possibly not. Which I can understand. But, in that case, the government should place the order *and* highlight the issue with a statement of how it will be solved. Trying to gloss over it, as they seem to be doing, makes it appear they won't correct the issue.
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The Wary Lemming
The Wary Lemming@thewarylemming·
@CDNPolicyHawk Is there a more Canadian alternative? I'm thinking no, not at this - time correct? Not disputing your points which I agree with, just wondering if there was any other choice when time is of the essence.
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@danielmullen @ThomasWatsonCD I don't think we should be sending anything. Certainly not at the moment. And I have yet to see any confirmation of that OS account... so I'm not very confident we are.
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Daniel Mullen@danielmullen·
@CDNPolicyHawk @ThomasWatsonCD Just think - under the previous prime minister, nothing would have been sent at all, as guarding the straits would have been condemned by someone.
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🇨🇦 Policy Hawk@CDNPolicyHawk·
This is especially problematic because Colt Canada are the *one* small arms provider within Canada's Munitions Supply Program, which means small arms contracts to to them by default in exchange for them maintaining a domestic capability to manufacture small arms in Canada. 4/
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