{"id":587177,"date":"2026-04-07T02:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587177\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:59:41","slug":"172m-of-federal-money-for-base-gagetown-is-for-new-air-defence-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587177\/","title":{"rendered":"$172M of federal money for Base Gagetown is for new air defence system"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most of the federal money coming to Base Gagetown will be used to upgrade the range and training area at the base and to build ground-based infrastructure for an air defence system.<\/p>\n

Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more than $1 billion would be spent on 5th Canadian Support Base Gagetown as part of the government’s plan to rebuild and the military.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc broke down how some of that money will be spent.<\/p>\n

About $172 million is for building infrastructure to house equipment coming for the new air defence system, something LeBlanc said is vital to the realities of modern combat.<\/p>\n

WATCH | More details on the $1 billion for Base Gagetown:\"\"<\/p>\n

Base Gagetown upgrades to begin this construction season<\/p>\n

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc visited 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown to explain how the federal government plans to spend more than $1 billion on the base over the next decade.<\/p>\n

“The system will allow the Canadian Armed Forces, all of you, to defeat threats posed by rockets, artillery, and mortar munitions, air to surface missals and bombs,” he said. <\/p>\n

But the bulk of the money will go to reconfiguring Gagetown’s training area and range, he said. According to a news release from National Defence, this would cost about $871 million. <\/p>\n

LeBlanc told reporters that the work will include repairing roads on the base, modernizing training grounds and building a new medical centre.<\/p>\n

“We understand the urgency of upgrading this infrastructure,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"aPrime Minister Mark Carney announced over $1 billion for Base Gagetown in Halifax on March 26. (Brian MacKay\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The federal government is also promising $20.2 million to upgrade a large building for transitional services, helping members who are leaving military service and helping their families make the transition as well.<\/p>\n

Construction of that centre has been underway since 2024. The news release said the completion of it was expected last month.<\/p>\n

“It will strengthen access to career, health and administrative services,” LeBlanc said. “Every \u2026member deserves high quality support as they transition into their next phase of life.”<\/p>\n

Carney previously announced some of the money would go toward new housing on the base.<\/p>\n

David Myles, the MP for Fredericton-Oromocto, said 650 units will be built, and the provincial government will likely engage local modular-home builders to get the work done.<\/p>\n

He said work on housing will be among the first projects taackled, and the goal is to begin this construction season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-587177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587177","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=587177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}