There’s no security without Indigenous sovereignty – The Hill Times

December 10, 2025

The boost in defence spending won’t amount to much without first ensuring Inuit prosperity, which is key to Canadian authority in the Arctic.

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Mark Carney’s commitment to defence spending is unmatched compared to previous decades; in 2013, Canada’s defence spending was barely one per cent of GDP. The most recent “$81.8-billion over five years on a cash basis, starting in 2025-26, to rebuild, rearm, and reinvest in the Canadian Armed Forces.” The budget pledged to “put Canada on a pathway to meet the NATO Defence Investment Pledge of investing [five] per cent of GDP in defence by 2035.” Carney’s new Defence Industrial Strategy is intended to strengthen the defence industry from job creation to technological investments to supply chain sovereignty. In fact, a Canadian company, Roshel,

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