Liberal defence blueprint a political win—for now

It's easy to talk about spending big, right up until you have to actually do it.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, pictured here during a roundtable event last year for the government's defence policy review, finally unveiled that policy last week, including promises of big funding increases after the next election.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

June 14, 2017

OTTAWA—It appears the federal Liberals have achieved an early victory in the communications war surrounding their just-released defence policy review. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan must be relieved, as he more recently has been riding some choppy waves for publicly exaggerating his role in a miss...

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