text: Canadians in general and their governments in particular are very naive about this topic, largely owing to an atrophied sense of sovereignty and a difficulty in dealing with the more than ever actual fact that, in the US, Canadians are just like any other foreigners. Any country, as large as the US or as small as Norway, that has any success in retaining value-adding jobs, understands very well that direct intervention in fostering sovereign industrial capabilities is a must and that entrepreneurs given state assistance can't just sell their businesses to the first foreigner who dangles cash in front of them. The flip side of this is that the state must provide opportunities for those entrepreneurs to sell to the state, very often in high technology areas such as IT, cyber, defense and aerospace. Our federal government appears to have a lack of purpose and unity on this since it now appears ready to procure used, second-hand foreign goods for our defense rather than Buying Canadian.