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‘A new muscle’: Calian embracing partnerships to boost defence business

Calian Group CEO Patrick Houston says the “opportunity set is significantly larger” for Canada’s defence industry than at any time in recent history thanks to the federal government’s pledge to boost defence spending from two per cent of the country’s GDP today to five per cent by 2035.
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