Also, what if, for security reasons Canada felt that even with the nuclear missiles we needed the Avro Arrow, and in order to get an edge over the USSR they needed to deke them out like hockey players. Things that kept the Soviets away were selling like maple syrup to European tourists in the era.
So, since Canada has two oceans the government publicly announces they're going to get another one in the 195...uh....four or five. It's all good until some minor quibble about how god damn expensive it is to go to Australia for Canadians. And it is really expensive to people who would want to go to Australia, or are coming back from going there or going around the world. It seems to be the topic of the month on parliament and when people notice it's taken as an indicator of Canada's ability on the world stage. Canada and Australia, so far apart could grow closer beyond the barrier in order to further advance their home-grown industries to be able to reach around the globe to other trade partners.
It's like... this huge obstacle to reaching a truly global market can only be accomplished by reaching for the sky while on a boat in the middle of the largest ocean between two friends on opposite hemispheres of the world.
You know (theoretically of course) how big the Pacific ocean is.
So, in order to subsidize travel around the world the Canadian Forces are not joined by one aircraft carrier paid for by the Tax Payers but four of them. The first two are military vehicles and the next pair are commercially owned.
Yes... commercial air craft carriers can be a giant source of tax revenue. If you have a Pacific coast. So much routes just waiting to be opened, Air Canada is having wet dreams. Revenue Canada loves the estimates on long-term revenue from having a jump on international travel income, eventually it will be enough to pay off the carriers and planes the GoC chips in to buy.
But, this is just the public set-up. The CSIS knows that the USSR is probably using newspapers to keep a close eye on anything it develops publicly. This can't be hidden, getting so much air craft carriers and developing international travel.
So, while the carriers are being made (or bought from the Americans if the commercial people don't want to wait for so long

) CSIS places a few key people into certain companies to make some dominoes come crashing down. If the company building some engines in Canada for this project was revealed to have a corrupt CEO who was blackmailed into going along with "losing" the contract to build the engines for the Carrier the project would stall, and hemorrhage money. This money, as well as the companies other projects taxed off in other ways to help, would produce enough money to laundered and given back to the government to buy more Arrows.
The judge, jury, lawyers, defendant and even his family are in on this. Volunteering their time these people work for the CSIS to assume the characters for a high-octane drama involving opium, alcohol, golf clubs and cars exploding while people walk away. It makes the papers, it totally has to. Using agents in the USSR Canada finds out when the story reaches the Kremlin, and after that time it's a mere few months to let the money keep flowing until it can effectively disappear into the CSIS' front companies and back into government accounts to finance the Arrows.
The drama involving the Engine Company dies down (harsh ex-mistress comes to the court room and "kills" the husband and wife, relocated by CSIS to a home in the Bermuda Triangle

) and the carrier has stalled long enough to be obsolete. Plus the idea of a nuclear carrier guarding the commercial carriers appeals to the military now. The commercial carrier is due to be instead sold to Australia (who suffered some drama of their own

) and the Arrows "halted" in mid production in order to get this new Nuclear Carrier for Canada.
The Arrows are snapped up by other nations, and Canada rolls it eyes collectively

rolleyes

and keeps producing arrows for the home market and a civilian variant. As time ticks down to the Nuclear Carrier joining the Australian-Canadian Force guarding the two Commercial Carriers (One between Hawaii and BC, the other between Australia and Hawaii, short-range planes allowed to go long distances for cheap

) the price of oil starts going up (as it seems to do

).
This makes the project more viable (maybe?) and while Canada develops new headway in international travel the money from the Arrow comes in, the Commercial Carriers are a success, it's cheap to fly to Australia and the Americans are happy since Hawaii's getting a bit of extra tourism.
The USSR is stuck spinning around, wondering how only a few years ago Canada was only going to buy
one other carrier, probably not going to produce the Arrow and eventually back down on keeping nuclear missiles...
HE SHOOTS HE SCORES!
