Regardless of the messenger, Canadian taxpayers are not about to let the government and spineless bureaucrats send our tax dollars to foreign countries to procure more military equipment. We now have less sovereign defense industrial capabilities than much smaller countries such as Sweden and even Norway, not to mention Israel. Those countries understood that keeping high-value jobs in the country is key to getting public support for an increase in defense budgets. 40 years of criminal neglect of this industry has resulted in Canada having to behave like a colony: buying foreign-made goods to defend natural resources that are then shipped to our masters at discounted prices.