Canada Doesn't Have a 'Military-Industrial Complex'

But it does have a 'Military-Corporate Complex' with powerful lobbying groups from many sides

Published October 11, 2006

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous 1961 farewell address to the American people contained a warning, and added a new concept into our vocabulary: The military-industrial complex.

As Eisenhower, who was the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, put it: "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience...We must guard...

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