Feds invest more than $8 million in defence production in Saskatchewan

Three Saskatchewan organizations are receiving millions of dollars—some in the form of interest-free, repayable contributions, some from non-repayable contributions—from the federal government as part of Canada’s continued push to increase domestic defence production and shore up supply chains. On April 24, Buckley Belanger, Canada’s secretary of state for rural development, announced $8.2 million in funding through the Regional Defence Investment Initiative (RDII), a three-year, $379-million na