{
  "generated": "2026-04-07",
  "title": "CANSEC 2025 — Arms Fair and Crackdown",
  "event": "CANSEC 2025, EY Centre, Ottawa",
  "exhibitors": "280+ including Lockheed Martin, BAE, Boeing, General Dynamics, Elbit Systems",
  "general_dynamics_display": {
    "finding": "General Dynamics displayed the EXACT 155mm artillery shell implicated in the Israel propellant contract",
    "source": "https://pbicanada.org/2025/05/29/general-dynamics-displays-artillery-shell-implicated-in-unlawful-arms-transfer-ottawa-police-arrest-13-at-protest/",
    "context": "Same shell type whose propellant was contracted via CCC (8.8M) two weeks after Joly blocked a different GD sale"
  },
  "elbit_display": {
    "finding": "Elbit exhibited Skylark drone implicated in targeting human rights defenders and journalists",
    "source": "https://pbicanada.org/2025/05/31/elbit-exhibit-at-cansec-2025-highlights-skylark-drone-implicated-in-the-targeting-of-human-rights-defenders-journalists-civilians/"
  },
  "protest_crackdown": {
    "arrested": 13,
    "includes": "Medic and photojournalist among those arrested",
    "police_response": "Anti-riot gear, surveillance drone over parking lot",
    "aftermath": "6 World Beyond War activists had homes raided by police, face charges",
    "source_arrests": "https://pbicanada.org/2025/05/29/large-protest-challenges-cansec-weapons-show-in-ottawa-medic-and-photo-journalist-among-13-arrested-at-demonstrations/",
    "source_raids": "https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/psit-d02.html"
  }
}