The nordic countries are saying to Canada that our defense requires the whole population to be part of the country's resilience to economic, natural and military disasters.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nordic-ambassadors-visit-yellowknife-arctic-tension-9.7053131
Canada pretends to have heard the message with several hundred thousand volunteer force.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/the-military-plans-for-a-volunteer-force-to-defend-canada/
Yet for decades they have been attacking the peaceful and largely patriotic small arms industry that had a fledgling domestic manufacturing capacity. One hopes we learn the lesson here really fucking quickly.