Canada’s newest defence policy has vision, but lacks prioritization to strengthen Canadian Armed Forces

The new defence policy should have created a strategy that would see our military structured as a maritime force, prioritizing the CAF’s sea and air domains supplemented by space and cyber capabilities.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured recently in Ottawa. The defence policy has directed its vision for how investments in sea, air, land, space, and cyber domains will secure and defend Canadian territory, writes Andrew Erskine. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW ERSKINE

May 23, 2024

Canada’s latest defence policy, Our North Strong and Free, has laid forth an ambitious, albeit more domestic-focused strategy for...

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