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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more than $1 billion Thursday for the 5th Canadian Support Base Gagetown, including its primary army training area and new ground-based air defence systems.
PM says spending on base to cover new air defence systems and transition centres
Allyson McCormack · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 26, 2026 2:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: 43 minutes ago
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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced billions of dollars in military spending at an announcement in Halifax on Thursday. (CBC)
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more than $1 billion in new spending for 5th Canadian Support Base Gagetown at an announcement in Halifax on Thursday, as part of Ottawa’s plan to rebuild the Canadian military.
It comes as Canada meets the NATO spending target of two per cent of gross domestic product, with more than $63 billion allocated — the largest year-over-year increase to Canada’s defence spending in generations.
Carney said more than $3 billion of that is being spent across Atlantic Canada with infrastructure and defence-related projects.
“In New Brunswick we’re investing more than a billion dollars in CFB Gagetown to recapitalize our primary army training area,
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