Canada’s military procurement: a laundry list of broken promises

Only a foolish military analyst would hail the recent defence policy update as a solid building block upon which to rebuild our badly depleted CAF.

Close followers of the Canadian Armed Forces have good reason to believe that little of what is promised in the defence policy update released by Defence Minister Bill Blair on April 8 will ever see the light of day, writes Scott Taylor.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

April 22, 2024

OTTAWA—When the Trudeau Liberals announced their long awaited defence policy update on April 8, it did not take the skeptics long to take to social media to criticize the policy paper.

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