Mark Carney’s dramatic escalation of military spending will change Canada — far more than has been acknowledged.

Without any clear assessment of our military needs, the prime minister has embarked on a massive military spending spree, which has suddenly immersed us in plans to spend $100 billion on submarines, and billions more on fighter jets.

All this has redrawn the boundaries of our national ambitions, redirecting vast resources into military firepower, forcing us to shrink our dreams of other things we could achieve together as a nation.

Indeed, Carney’s decision to enormously bulk up our military is a true game changer — perhaps the most far-reaching of all the decisions he’s made as PM — and yet it was made with virtually no public consultation.

Strikingly, his plan to triple our annual military spending — so that we’ll be spending an extra $150 billion a year by 2035 — was never presented to Canadians prior to the April 2025 election that delivered Carney a minority government.

His announcement, less than two months later, that military spending would jump from 1.4 per cent to five per cent of GDP came almost completely out of the........

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