The cupboard is not bare: Canada can send Ukraine surplus LAVs

It is time Canada stepped up and commissioned some of its surplus inventory of LAVs to provide a cohesive land combat team of MBTs and IFVs for Ukraine. Allied support must continue unabated. The future of Ukrainians as a free people depends on it.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured recently in a Hill scrum. Canada could offer to refurbish and up-armour vehicles that have officially been deemed surplus to the Canadian Army’s current requirements. These could be refurbished faster, armoured to a higher standard and cost less than any new IFVs, writes David Pratt. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID PRATT

February 27, 2023

OTTAWA—U.S. President Biden’s recent speeches in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Warsaw, Poland, underline the importance of allied solidarity and the need for continued support from NATO members to assist Ukraine. According to Biden, the alliance simply cannot allow Russia to prevai...

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