Overdue defence policy update must address changing international threats, inflation: defence experts

'The longer they delay, the further we are behind,' says NDP critic Lindsay Mathyssen of the wait for the now-overdue update to Canada's defence policy.

Defence Minister Bill Blair's office says 'the world has changed since 2017—and we know that we need to do more, especially given Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, and security challenges in the Indo-Pacific.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

November 22, 2023

An update to Canada’s defence policy is needed sooner rather than later in order to address changing military threats from Russia and China, domestic deployment issues, and inflation pressures that have increased costs for many goods, say defence policy experts.

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