It’s not the size of the defence budget, but how it’s spent that matters

A nation's defence commitment should be measured as a tangible combat capability based on a percentage of population and regional circumstances, not as an arbitrary fraction of GDP.

At a Sept. 28 House Defence Committee meeting, Chief of Defence Staff General Wayne Eyre admitted that trimming nearly $1-billion from the DND budget would have an impact on operations, writes Scott Taylor.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

October 9, 2023

OTTAWA—The Department of National Defence has once again been in the public spotlight. First, it was the news that the Liberal government is trying to cut up to $1-billion from the defence budget as part of its overall goal to trim federal spending.

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