Defence procurement and the need for a defence industrial strategy

In the larger context, this is an improvement over what existed in the past, but Canadians should be looking for their government to articulate a coherent defence industrial strategy in one document rather than a collection of documents.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan. Craig Stone says it's time for the government to articulate, in one document, the long-term strategic connections and competitive advantages they want to achieve with the variety of policies that exist today.

Opinion

BY CRAIG STONE

January 21, 2019

In the spring of 2008 the International Journal published an article entitled “Canada Needs a Defence Industrial Policy.” One of the issues raised in the introduction to that article was the controversy around the government’s plan to invest significant resources on military equipment...

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