Military activities, veterans’ support, Phoenix fix big-ticket items in $4B new spending ask

The Service Income Security Insurance Plan, the Canadian Armed Forces' underfunded long-term disability plan, has the largest price tag at $623-million.

Treasury Board Scott Brison tabled the third and final supplementary estimates of the 2017-18 fiscal year on Feb. 12, which includes a request for more than $900-million in funding for his department alone. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY EMILY HAWS

February 21, 2018

The Department of National Defence and other departments providing services to active and retired members of the Armed Forces are taking up a sizeable chunk of the $4-billion in extra spending the Liberals have put forward for parliamentary approval in the fiscal year...

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