Trudeau government is lapsing on prioritizing national defence

The Liberals have lapsed defence spending every single year since 2017, despite their 2015 platform promise to quit short-changing national defence.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference alongside Defence Minister Anita Anand and Infrastructure and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc on Sept. 26. The Liberals haven’t prioritized national defence or supplied the political leadership to get money out the door, writes Conservative MP James Bezan.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE MP JAMES BEZAN

November 23, 2022

Today, we can watch in real time Russia’s barbaric war in Ukraine, Beijing’s aggression against Taiwan, North Korean missile tests, and Iran’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors. That sobering news should have served as the biggest wake-up call ever.

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