Entering Canada's Defence Market: How to Get Started
The starting point for a company that has never sold to government and has just worked out that Canada's defence spending might apply to it.

- When
- Thursday, September 17, 2026
- 10:00 to 11:00, Pacific Time (PCT)
- Where
- Online
- Cost and entry
- Free
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Anu’s take
'Defence market' reads as primes and twenty-year contracts, which is why most small companies never look twice. The Business Development Bank puts small and medium firms at 92 percent of the businesses already in the sector, and 40 percent of its jobs. This one is the map rather than the bid: who buys, how government and the primes buy differently, and where a supplier your size would sit underneath them.
Who’s involved
- Running the event. Ask them about signing up or changes.
- Export Navigator (their website, in a new tab)
- Helping the organizer put on the event.
- 123 Defence (their website, in a new tab)
From Export Navigator’s page on eventbrite.ca (the organizer’s page, in a new tab) · Listed Sep 15 · Updated Nov 2, 06:17