Liberals’ Defence Procurement Canada is still worth a look

The split between three primary departments leads to considerable time and effort spent bridging silos, organizational cultures, competing personalities, and differing policy and legislative mandates.

The mandate letters for Defence Minister Anita Anand, left, and Procurement Minister Filomena Tassi had one glaring absence: the end of the six-decade-old multi-department defence procurement system in favour of a new single entity, Defence Procurement Canada, writes Jeffrey F. Collins.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JEFFREY F. COLLINS

January 26, 2022

Days before Christmas, the Trudeau government released its ministerial mandate letters. An early holiday present for the country’s pundits and policy wonks, the letters highlight government priorities and marching orders for cabinet ministers. For Canadian defence policy observers, the 2021 mandat...

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