Defence spending can’t buy readiness

Latvian President Egils Levits, left, Defence Minister Anita Anand, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visit the Adazi Military Base in Latvia where Canadian soldiers deployed to Operation Reassurance are stationed on March 8. Flickr photograph courtesy of NATO

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

April 6, 2022

In the run-up to this week’s much-anticipated federal budget, Canada’s defence spending has had a considerable amount of time in the heat of the spotlight. Defence Minister Anita Anand and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland signalled weeks ago that special attention would be paid to the file th...

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