Canada Bets on NATO Partners for Its Expanded Submarine Fleet

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The multi-billion dollar deal comes as PM Carney heads to a Nato summit where members are expected to show new military investment.

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In selecting a joint bid from Germany and Norway, Prime Minister Mark Carney is elevating Canada's naval power and reducing its military and economic dependency on the United States.

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Prime Minister Carney announces the preferred supplier for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project – the largest defence procurement in Canadian history.

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The assumptions that shaped decades of Canadian defence and security are being upended.

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Climate change is causing our Arctic region to warm nearly three times faster than the global average – a shift that adversaries are actively looking to exploit.

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To that end, Canada's new government has reached 2% of defence spending for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall, transformed defence procurement, and secured over 20 defence and security partnerships in a year.Key to this mission is the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP).

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Yet, our current fleet is aging, with only one of four submarines seaworthy.

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