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PlayerToBeNamedLater said:

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MindzEye said:
This is the bank:

www.dsrb.org

DSR Bank | Backed by Democratic Nations. Built for Strategic Impact.

Discover how the DSR Bank empowers nations with innovative defence financing solutions and partnerships for a more secure future.
www.dsrb.org www.dsrb.org
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This is amazing news, thousands of high paying jobs and associated infrastructure. Hope it's in Ontario, but anywhere is good for Canada.

Us southwestern Ontarians - we're in rough shape. I would love a hard pivot in the area to solar and electrical vehicles. I think that's our best case ontario.
 
Aberdeen said:
This is amazing news, thousands of high paying jobs and associated infrastructure. Hope it's in Ontario, but anywhere is good for Canada.

Us southwestern Ontarians - we're in rough shape. I would love a hard pivot in the area to solar and electrical vehicles. I think that's our best case ontario.
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Would have to assume the bank itself will operate out of Toronto, as the country's financial centre and all. So there's some good jobs direct jobs involved in managing that. As for where they spend it, yeah, we need to start doing manufacturing of our own military gear up and down the list. as nice as licensing with Saab or the SK's would be to bring Gripen's and tanks/mobile arty in house would be, probably more impactful from a jobs standpoint would be the stuff we don't think about as much. Nato calibre shells (rifle, mortar, and arty) can be made more or less anywhere and we should be stockpiling them. Look at how quickly the Russians burnt through literally decades worth of production and started begging the North Koreans ffs. Body armour, helmets, all of our standard kit outs, should all be manufactured here or if it is outsourced because someone else does it better and cheaper than we can, in 1 for 1 transfer agreements where they're buying something off of us while we buy that kit off of them.

Where that production lands though....dunno mate. The problem the far southwest is that the one industry it has/had doesn't transition over to military production very well in 2026. It didn't take a lot to switch over a 1940's vehicle assembly line to make jeeps, troop transports, or even tanks. But the gear in a modern vehicle plant is so specialized now that even switching an old Ford factory over to do MRAP's or LAV's would be cost prohibitive. You'd have to strip the place and start over anyway, the only benefit is the big ass building already being there. So regions that already do some of that work now (like London) would probably just see site expansions rather than new sites getting started from scratch. A lot of the higher tech end of it will end up around Waterloo just for access to talent, the aerospace stuff to Montreal because again, access to a specific talent pool.

Your hope on a hard pivot to solar and EV's is probably a better direction for the region. EV's specifically wouldn't require a whole ton of alteration to the existing supply chains down there and there's already some battery tech manufacturing down there if memory serves.
 
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