Defence policy review to acknowledge need for ‘proper’ funding and investments in personnel: Sajjan

For too long, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says successive federal governments have failed to provide 'predictable, sustainable, long-term funding' for the Canadian Armed Forces.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is expressing confidence in the capabilities of the Canadian Armed Forces to meet new and existing challenges, including missions in the Baltics and Ukraine and addressing the threat of cyber attacks. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

May 29, 2017

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan started in his position in the fall of 2015 with some pretty hefty instructions. The former soldier was told that was one of his first tasks as minister would be to embark on a sweeping review of the country’s defence policy—a review that would lead to the creat...

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