There was the Darlington nuclear plant upgrades recently, which were completed ahead of schedule. Borealis was announced last year indicating new military research development. France had a nuclear sub in one of our ports, they already have nukes. I’m pretty sure they are going for them in secret and may already have one.
I’d love to suddenly have nukes and protect ourselves from the Americans but i don’t think there is a feasible way to do it without the Americans knowing. I think the only way would be an agreement where France would station nukes in Canada until we can make our own, but I’d be flabbergasted if France actually had the guts to do that. It wouldn’t be a violation of NATO but it could certainly create some kind of Cuban missile crisis between France and the US and Germany would convulse and wage an economic war against France, potentially threatening the existence of the EU as a whole.
How would any number of nukes protect Canada from a country with over 5,000 of them.
The idea of CAF spending for actual defense of Canada is delusional and naive. CAF spending is about bribery to US industry.
It doesn’t matter how many nukes the US has. If we have the capability to turn NYC into the surface of the moon, the US wouldn’t risk it.
Just the threat of a few nukes taking out DC or some other major city is usually enough of a deterrent to not start shit. Yeah, they could litter Canada with ground zero zones, but that’s not the point.
Trump is a different animal though. Most humans care about other people so the threat of a country nuking New York or DC is a pretty good reason to make political arrangements this doesn’t happen. Trump hates humanity and only cares about himself. I honestly think he would be in heaven if a nuke took out LA or Portland.