The Documentary Podcast · BBC World Service
How to spend billions – fast: Carney’s Defence Deadline
·27 min·2 clips
Prime Minister Carney orders generals to spend billions fast as Canada faces a dangerous world.
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A careful look at Canada's military rebuild and the cost of moving fast.
Canada's military rebuild gives this episode its shape, and the reporting stays close to the ground, which makes the strain easy to feel. Recruits move through a frozen training area in Quebec, instructors describe the push to grow numbers fast, and the story keeps circling the…
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Why Canada is widening the pipeline to rebuild its military on a deadline.
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