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Ottawa’s 90-percent procurement blind spot reveals why state capacity reform keeps failing
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Ottawa’s 90-percent procurement blind spot reveals why state capacity reform keeps failing
EDITORIAL
18 MAY 2026
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Canada's Defence Investment Agency will oversee less than a tenth of military contracts by volume—a microcosm of an institutional design problem that no expenditure review has ever solved
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More than one in five Canadians now works for government. The federal public service has expanded substantially over the past decade. Ottawa is simultaneously pledging to build more homes, modernize the military, fast-track energy and mining projects, se…
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