Since he was elected earlier this year, Kelowna Liberal MP Stephen Fuhr has made one trip to the United States.

It was a short one, of just over a day’s duration. He was in Texas to talk to U.S. military contractors in his capacity as a junior cabinet minister charged with overseeing Canadian defence procurement.

“Those companies want to work with Canada,” Fuhr said Monday in an interview. “As of right now, 75 cents of every dollar of our defence procurement budget goes south of the border.

“They obviously want to see that continue, but we’re not all that interested in doing that anymore,” Fuhr said, referring to the ongoing fallout from the strained political relations between Canada and the U.S. under President Donald Trump.

“We want to build ourselves out in a way that’s more consis

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