A contract with something as sensitive as drones for our military should have no affiliation with a US company!!

We made a contract with a Canadian based business to keep drone production in Canada, without US supply chain involvement. Draganfly is actually based in Tampa and has ex-Trump cabinet members on their board. I think this ABSOLUTELY qualifies for review of the contract.

The point is not that the US crime family is involved. The point is that something as sensitive as national security has to be kept in the hands of a Canadian company, not one run from the USA.

I would call it a security threat for don jr to have access to Canadian Tech.

We understand that the contact was NOT awarded directly to Don Jrs company.  Its the fact that 2 weeks after it was awarded to Draganfly some of the shares was sold to a company that Don Orangeman Jr owns.  So if they start getting the right from Draganfly to produce some of the drones in the US what's the whole point of us trying to decouple from the US?

It is not just DJT Jr but that the parts are being MANUFACTURED in Florida .. we are supposed to be supporting CANADIAN companies !!!!

Large Man Abroad was the first report I heard on this. Most of what he said, appears to be in line with what you’ve now said. He did say that dragonfly was a Saskatchewan company, which no one has disputed but some say that they have offices in the US. He also said that Dragonfly was awarded the contract and then later went ahead with investment from a company, which Don Junior was a part of in someway. He did say there was some shenanigans going on with selling shares which looked like it was associated with Don Jr’s company. could be somebody needs to look into that. I’m not sure what Canadian laws are regarding insider trading but it sounds like something similar to that might’ve been going on and deserves to be investigated if any of these allegations are true or if it violates Canadian laws. One thing he did say regarding the contract is that there’s an out clause, now as a Canadian I don’t want any company that has anything to do with Don Junior or the Trump family, even if they only have one share in the company, to be making drones or any other military equipment for Canada. If there is an out clause, it may have to be executed after an investigation is done. Dragonfly is apparently one of many companies that is involved in the drone situation and it could be that we need to make an example of one company in order to dissuade other Canadian companies from doing this sort of thing. They may not have done anything wrong by accepting money from a US company, but it also may be that Canada shouldn’t be allowing that in regards to building Canadian military equipment when the threat is coming from the US.

The ABSOLUTE only nation Canada has ever had to fear invading us is the US. Ergo our military supply chain should be hermetically sealed off from the ONLY country we need fear.

The US government interfering in Canadian industry again. All business needs to switch to Algoma Steel. We need a lot more barriers to prevent the US from interfering in our country especially in politics.

Charlie Angus did a video about this urging Canadians to call David McGuinty’s office to protest this.

The optics for Dragonfly is horrible, board members have worked for a Trump administration. Then they get a contract with the Canadian Military, then go to a company DJT Jr is on the board of and is an investor.

I think you need to look at this again.  We can't have a US company making motherboards for our drones.  The government would not have known about the investment ahead of time but, it needs to be reviewed.

It’s not about the money! It puts Canada at risk.We have Canadian companies that should be awarded these contracts.

Maybe Canada could kick Stelco out of the plant and give it to Algoma Steel to run!

It is in our power to, cancel the contract and not purchase any more drones from this canadian company. Is it true that they didn't even really need the investors. Also with Canadians trying to stand together, why would they accept an investment from a company tied to the trump family

Its still slimy, whatever way you look at it. They couldn't find investors in Canada?

Canada is on the hook for the first batch of drones from Draganfly with an option to buy more, I would really like to see the contract not go forward with any company attached to Trump Jr. and members of Trump former cabinet members

Sorry Bill you missed the point.  Our weapons supply chain must be kept in Canada.  Having parts supplied by an American firm leaves our military procurement vulnerable.  We have to learn from Ukraine that we need to build our own armaments.

It seems that there are a number of comments that get to the heart of why Canadians are livid regarding this Draganfly deal.  Any contract awarded by our government, and especially for our defence equipment, should not have shares owned by any American and especially anyone in the :face-pink-tears:'s family.  I did research the company immediately after hearing this, its two locations in the website clearly showed Saskatoon and Florida. Some of the CEOs former USA military. WE WANT 100% CANADIAN to receive government contracts. So like another comment said "Bill it's still bad... the optics are terrible"  Gotta go with the majority on this one.

Bill it's still bad... the optics are terrible,  Dragonfly has embarrassed the gov't and Canada.  They did this after receiving a fed contract. We are supposed to be supporting innovative homegrown companies here in Canada.