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Mikael Olsson, a Gripen test pilot, in front of a JAS 39 Gripen E in Lindkoping, Sweden, last week.

Every so often, the economic stars align to allow a country to create a new industry, or put an ambitious new spin on an old one, that tilts the jobs, innovation and wealth curves in an upward direction.

For a brief, shining moment about 20 years ago, for instance, Finland’s Nokia and Canada’s BlackBerry came to own the mobile phone market. AI is now propelling the U.S. economy.

Today, the stars are aligning for Canada, which has been offered a rare opportunity to relaunch its once-vast, now virtually moribund, defence aerospace industry by an unlikely agent of change, Sweden .

Will Canada take it? The fear and loathing relationship between Ottawa and Washington certainly ma

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