Ottawa – Ottawa launches a new Federal purchase agency, designed to revise and centralize how the military buy their equipment.
State Secretary of the Procurement of Defense Stephen Fur, who will observe the new protective investment agency, says that he will deliver equipment to the Canadian armed forces at a faster pace that will better satisfy his needs.
The liberal government uses the former executive director of the Royal Bank of Canada Duga Gusman to manage a new agency, which will be placed as part of the public services and procurement of Canada.
Prime Minister Mark Carny spoke for a promise to reform the procurement of defense during the spring elections, optimizing the system for making military purchases in order to reduce long -term delays.
The liberals took the obligation to get to the new defense purchase agency in 2019, but abandoned these plans as a priority, when the pandemic of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Canada devoted her NATO allies that she would spend two percent of her GDP on national defense every year – to spend levels that have not been observed since the Cold War.
This report of the Canadian press was first published on October 2, 2025.
