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Bennett Jones Executive Breakfast: Defence Edition- MUST APPLY TO ATTEND

November 05, 2026 • 07:15 AM – 08:15 AM
Room 214

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Canada as the Best Customer: Procurement, Risk and Speed
Canada is spending at NATO’s target for the first time and rebuilding the CAF over five years. The people who set defence industrial policy, run federal procurement, and stand up the new Defence Investment Agency discuss what has to change for Canada to be the fastest and most useful customer for its own companies. How much risk the Crown is willing to carry, how quickly a contract can actually move, who owns the intellectual property at the end of it, and what a founder in this room should do next.