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Canada Earmarks $1 Billion to Boost Ammunition Production

Projectiles yet to be completed at an ammunition plant.

Photographer: Rachel Wisniewski/Bloomberg

The Canadian government has set aside C$1.4 billion ($1 billion) for domestic defense manufacturers to expand ammunition production.

National Defence Minister David McGuinty announced the funding on Wednesday in Ingersoll, Ontario, where IMT Precision will receive as much as C$305.4 million to establish a new facility that will produce empty metal shells.