As military defence procurements go, this one's a no-brainer

CBC recently reported that a Department of National Defence internal presentation outlines a plan to rapidly move forward with a procurement to replace the army’s inventory of assault rifles.

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Known as the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle program, this purchase aims to replace the 65,401 C-7 rifles and C-8 carbines that first entered service in 1985. This replacement program has been on the books for some time as part of the Trudeau Liberals’ Strong, Secure, Engaged policy on defence.

However, with new Prime Minister Mark Carney’s directive to massively increase Canada’s defence spending in the short term, this contract was brought forward by nearly two years.

The scale of this purchase may also be massively increased to produce over 300,000 of the new rifles if recently proposed mobilization plans proceed to create a 400,000-strong supplementary reserve force of Canadian citizen soldiers.

Based on the original order of 65,401 modular assault rifles, the project is worth an estimated $500 million to $1 billion.

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