Carney heads to Montreal to promote plan to ‘reinforce strategic autonomy’ – iPolitics
February 17, 2026
What’s happening on (and off) Parliament Hill, plus the news you need to start your day.
With regular House of Commons business on hold until next week, Prime Minister Mark Carney is off to Montreal to “tour a production and manufacturing assembly line” before going before the cameras to announce what his office is billing as “new measures to strengthen security, create prosperity and reinforce strategic autonomy.” (10:30 a.m.)
UPDATE: Canadian Press is now reporting that Carney will is set to formally release a new defence industrial strategy that will outline “sweeping changes to the way it approaches supporting the domestic defence industry, as Canada looks to transition away from overreliance on the United States for military gear,” according to an earlier report.
