August 11, 2025
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#1208 How Carney Can Get You to Serve in the Military
“All of this spending that we're talking about, all of it from pistols, drones, to fighter jets and submarines, none of it is going to make sense unless Canadians are willing to  join the armed forces.” - Wesley Wark
Bruce Thorson
Senior Producer
Caleb Thompson
Audio Editor
max collins
Director of Audio
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher

Mark Carney is nation building. To do that, he needs to rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces. Between decades of neglect and the forces’ own goals by way of bad headlines that’s no mean feat.

Rebuilding the military, from new recruits to new fighter planes, will take more than promising government money. There’s a pitch that needs to be made to the Canadian public and partnerships to be forged with the private sector for investment.

So how will the Prime Minister convince the Canadian public and private investors to rebuild the embattled Canadian Armed Forces? Are Carney’s nation-building plans the new National Dream or just national daydreaming?

Professor Wesley Wark, defence and security analyst and former national security and intelligence advisor to Stephen Harper, joins us today.

Host: Bruce Thorson (Reporter, Senior Producer)

Caleb Thompson (Mixing & Master), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

Fact checking by Julian Abraham

Trumpet by: Tristan Capacchione

Additional music by Audio Network

Further Reading

Wesley Wark Substack

Liberals Spending $2B to Boost Military Pay – CBC

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