{"id":544857,"date":"2026-03-18T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544857\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:33:18","slug":"feds-provide-more-than-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544857\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds provide more than $1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Defence Minister David McGuinty says the federal government is giving a big boost to the munitions industry to build up the domestic supply of heavy artillery shells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa will pump more than $1 billion in public funds into new facilities in Ingersoll, Ont., and Repentigny, Que., for heavy munitions used in artillery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The funds will be split between IMT Precision and General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, which is a subsidiary of the major U.S. contractor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The goal is to quickly ramp up production of 155-millimetre shells used by howitzers and to start production of nitrocellulose, a chemical compound used as a propellant in artillery shells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The aim is to get production of nitrocellulose up and running in the next three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The funds fall under the new Canadian Defence Industry Resilience program, part of the Liberal government\u2019s new defence industrial strategy aimed at building up domestic defence production capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Defence Minister David McGuinty says the federal government is giving a big boost to the munitions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,49,48,32508,24803,46,47,44,714],"class_list":["post-544857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chemicals","tag-defence","tag-economy","tag-national","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}