New rifles on the way for Canada's soldiers as defence spending ramps up (www.cbc.ca)

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A program intended to replace the entire stock of the Canadian military’s aging assault rifles is being sped up, CBC News has learned.

An internal Department of National Defence presentation references a move to quickly order the first tranche of weapons under the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle program.

A Defence Department equipment briefing, dated July 2025, says the plan is to order up to 65,401 modern rifles with the possibility being left open to increase the delivery up to 300,000 should the government proceed with a plan to drastically scale up the size of the military supplementary reserve.

The Canadian Modular Assault Rifle is intended to replace the current stock of C7 and C8 rifles, which date from the Afghan war almost two decades ago.

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[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

The liberals are the friendly-face nanny-state fascists, the conservatives are the scary-face anti-everything fascists, they're two sides of the same coin. They're both starting to swing fascist authoritarian, don't be deceived because they wear different costumes.

[-] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've seen where the modern right wing takes us. It's orange, it's bloviating, it's anti-intellectual, it's corrupt to the core. The slovenly worship of the least deserving person on the planet, the self-owns, all so they can cause pain to people they don't like. The destruction of the global order and denial of reality.

I prefer the liberal version. There just isn't a 'both sides' to this.