When I read this, I see the usual verbage. I remain utterly skeptical this will be anything other than just another feeding frenzy at the taxpayer trough while our military continues to languish and libetals get rich.
Routing this $244 million through the NRC’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) is a significant departure from the norm. IRAP is historically structured for civilian small business grants, not military procurement or "dual-use" tech. I will be watching the upcoming Supplementary Estimates to see if this is genuinely new money or just re-profiled funds from existing Industry Canada envelopes. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has repeatedly flagged that these types of innovation funds often lag years behind their press releases in actual execution.
I agree entirely. Money from our Defense budget should not be going to companies producing products not intended or suitable to our Defense. Period.
When I read this, I see the usual verbage. I remain utterly skeptical this will be anything other than just another feeding frenzy at the taxpayer trough while our military continues to languish and libetals get rich.
Routing this $244 million through the NRC’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) is a significant departure from the norm. IRAP is historically structured for civilian small business grants, not military procurement or "dual-use" tech. I will be watching the upcoming Supplementary Estimates to see if this is genuinely new money or just re-profiled funds from existing Industry Canada envelopes. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has repeatedly flagged that these types of innovation funds often lag years behind their press releases in actual execution.