Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[Czech_pivo]

2024

The guy is clueless, in this case, then.

 

[ytz]

I have a hope with the term "strategic partnership" as heralding a new vision for armoured vehicle production. This is to create a move away from transactional, feast or famine, projects to a directed joint system where DIA staff and CAF project and maintenance staff all partner with GDLS-C design and production staff to create solutions to future needs.

Exactly what it is. This is supposed to be closer to how shipbuilding is run. A pipeline of work. Cooperation with industry on what can be built. And what technologies need to be fostered. Add milpers posted to DIA and industry to advise and guide development. A lot of this is still ramping admittedly.

Would Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Finland ever have any interested in an expanded version of this to include their northern regions?

You're assuming it just covers our Arctic. Not quite. And we absolutely would share with them.

 

[ytz]

Lots of possibilities but in my view the "strategic partnership" is most decidedly not new.

Yes and no. We've probably not done something this tight with industry in easily half a decade. This means there's nobody in government who still remembers how to do this. It's honestly been useful that DIA's CEO is a banker in this regard. It's a job that needed an outsider.

It's amazing what a seperation crisis can stir-up...

That's not what got them this. As Noah points out, it's the backing of several large IT companies. And I'm sure they appreciate AB ramming though some data centres. Or more accurately an order of magnitude spend higher than any other province, on data centres. That is the part that is controversial given how much some constituencies hate data centres.

 

[brihard]

So….a spiderman web slinger?

Funnily enough that’s what I thought of too.