Will Trudeau fill all Canada’s defence capability gaps?

If DND doesn’t get another few billion dollars more each year, it can’t afford to maintain the status quo, let alone support a ‘Canada is Back’ foreign policy.
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, centre, Public Services Minister Judy Foote, right, and Chief of Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance, left, announce the government's fighter-jet purchase plans in Ottawa on Nov. 22.
The Trudeau government’s announcement of its way forward on fighter jets can be taken as a positive indication of its attitude toward the military in general. Unhappy with former prime minister Stephen Harper’s ‘risk-management’ of Canada’s fighter commitments, Prime Minister Justin Trudea...

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