Liberals’ defence policy review draws criticism for lacking consistency with foreign policy

Critics claim the Liberals lack a 'conceptual strategy' on defence as the defence policy review was published without a complementary assessment of foreign policy.

Queen’s University's Stefanie von Hlatky says Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland's foreign policy speech in the House, made days before the release of the defence policy review results, was deliberate in its timing. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY IAIN SHERRIFF-SCOTT

September 11, 2017

The Liberal government’s defence policy review, which was released to the public this spring, has drawn a similar brand of criticism as successive government’s policy reviews have, including that it lacks consistency with Canada’s foreign policy. As Queen’s University political science prof...

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