‘Extremely well placed to succeed’: new Defence Minister Anand to take on deep-seated procurement issues, sexual misconduct crisis gripping top ranks of military

Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, Ottawa operations manager and a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, says the biggest issue Anita Anand will be dealing with is a loss of trust in the military, not only from the Canadian public but from numerous service members.
While Canada's new Defence Minister Anita Anand has the right experience and leadership for the job, she will likely face difficulties in dealing with the Canadian Armed Forces' (CAF) entrenched problems of sexual misconduct and procurement delays, according to several politicos. "Certainly she'll ...

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