Canada Introduces Bill C-40 to Make Defence Investment Agency a Crown Corporation
In Ottawa, Canada, the government introduced Bill C-40, the Strengthening Canada's Defence Sector Act, in the House of Commons on October 6. The bill would turn the Defence Investment Agency into a Crown corporation to speed up military procurement decisions. Secretary of State (Defence Procurement) Stephen Fuhr introduced the legislation.
The Defence Investment Agency was created in October 2025 as a Special Operating Agency within Public Services and Procurement Canada to coordinate major defence purchases. Under the bill, it would become an arm's-length Crown corporation, legally named the Canadian Corporation for Defence Investment, under the National Defence portfolio, with a new Associate Minister of National Defence for Procurement.
The government says the current system suffers from overlap and long decision chains. As a Crown corporation reporting directly to the Minister of National Defence, the agency is expected to decide faster and give industry and allied counterparts a clearer point of contact.
The bill builds on Canada's first Defence Industrial Strategy, launched by the Carney government on February 17, 2026. The government says public accountability and transparency requirements will not be lowered as procurement speeds up.
Source: Defence Investment Agency
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Photo: 加拿大陆军士兵。/ Canadian Army soldiers. (Photo: Justin Snyder, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
