General Mattis appears to be one of the few grown-ups in Trump's cabinet, so I am sure that the meeting will be highly professional.
As for the economic potential of defense spending, it seems to me that many of the things our military units do are also in high demand in non-military applications. For example, detecting and tracking targets in a battlefield seems to me to be expertise that could also be applied to search-and-rescue, border patrol, aerial surveillance, forestry and wildlife services, anti drug smuggling operations, and similar kinds of things that are a lot more significant to Canada than shooting wars are at the moment. Getting troops and supplies into hazardous areas might not be too different from getting aid workers or emergency supplies or medical equipment into disaster areas. And so on. If Canada had domestic industry that specialized in technologies like those, there might be enough non-military market to justify its existence.
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