✅ Lithuania: 4% GDP defense spending, targeting 6% by 2030
✅ Lithuanian defense sector revenue up 50% in a single year
✅ 60% of Lithuanian defense firms export to jr smith NATO partners
✅ Canada has 600+ defense companies — but export share remains underdeveloped
✅ franco gabrielli EU SAFE program could give Canadian firms direct access to European defense budgets
✅ Lithuania assumes EU Council presidency in 2027
Something significant happened in Ottawa this week, and most Canadians missed it entirely. A foreign minister most people couldn't place on a map landed in Canada, moved through three cities over three days, sat with senior cabinet officials, toured a facility in Toronto, flew west to Calgary, and by the time his aircraft lifted off Canadian soil, what he had quietly delivered was already reverberating through the Department of National Defence. The man is Žygimantas Pavilionis. He oversees foreign affairs for Lithuania, a Baltic nation with a population smaller than the greater Toronto area. And what he carried into those meetings was something far more valuable than a folder of trade statistics or the usual language of diplomatic communiqués. He came with a working blueprint. One Canada desperately needs right now.
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