Canada ought to invest heavily in vaccine tech / bio firms. Even more so with the states not doing so.

Most obvious reason being basic health concerns, and the response required for things like pandemics, which are likely to increase in frequency as the world burns to the ground. The less obvious reason is that those assets / skills double as bio weapon developers (as we’re seeing practically everywhere, things like the Geneva convention / anti-genocide stuff has become very flexible). All the talk about getting nukes is silly, when you can quietly have a team of 2 dudes in an off-grid forest hut, with a chicken coup and a couple drones, potentially do billions of dollars of damage to a country that is… in a rush to further expose themselves as vulnerable to this sort of threat, by firing all their researchers/scientists on the subject.

So we can invest in biotech for generally altruistic and proper reasons, while having a very easy to conceal / clandestine alterior motive that can serve as a bit more of a deterrent / safety net. Win-win.

Sorta like how we ought to roll our climate disaster response teams under a military umbrella, and jack up our spending on things like logistics teams for moving things in and out of disaster areas. We need to hit 2% or 5% GDP spending on Military for Nato? Don’t see why we can’t meet that target with ease, just by spending more on our own natural disaster response capabilities at the federal level. Can even lend those assets out to assist our allies when they get hit with issues. Again, win-win.