What Canada really needs to invest in is a few airforce bases with good 100 ton piston fired launchers.
The reason that aircraft seem to get so much airtime when on nuclear aircraft carriers is because 90% of their takeoff fuel is conserved because its literally hurled into the air with pistons that are charged with excess nuclear power (nuclear power which also propels the entire aircraft carrier through the water) They also expend little fuel on landing by wire.
Technically, I believe that the exact specs of the pistons hidden under the deck is a US military secret - But I'll put it on record here, haha.
If you have to burn fuel on takeoff, you've just eaten up a huge portion of available reserves. Especially a thin oxygen takeoff like in the altitude of Calgary.
Mind you, all of that can be skipped if we simply go to 1/20th weight drones.