Military aid to Ukraine was last-minute scramble under pressure from PM: Docs

After military given a day to cough up surplus equipment, Canadian Commercial Corporation brokered $5 million in contracts with industry.
James Bezan, then parliamentary secretary to the defence minister, gives a speech Aug. 8, 2014, at Boryspil International Airport in Ukraine. The delivery of military equipment he accompanied was a last-minute order from the Prime Minister's Office, documents show.
Canada’s high-profile delivery of military supplies to Ukraine in the summer of 2014 appears to have been planned and executed under pressure from the prime minister in only 10 days, according to internal documents. A few months after the Russian annexation of Crimea, as conflict between Ukrain...

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