Carney’s CAF spending spree
Unfortunately, the one resource which the military is critically lacking is something that cannot be easily bought: trained personnel.
Ramped-up military spending is good news, but will face challenges
Two per cent gets us back on track if we lived in 2014. That alone may be a hard sell, eventually, for the prime minister. What comes next will be harder. But it’s needed, and overdue.
All eyes on Trump: meet the top 50 foreign policy influencers navigating Canada’s role in a rocky world
The Hill Times spoke with nearly 20 insiders, including current and former senior government officials, past diplomats, business leaders, analysts, and academics to compile the list of the top 50 foreign policy influencers.
Enlisting Coast Guard to buoy defence spending expected to hit choppy waters, say analysts
Military policy expert James Boutilier says it doesn’t matter who’s in charge of the Coast Guard, as long as the feds move ‘with urgency’ to meet the overdue NATO commitment.
How soon should we expect this ‘immediate’ military overhaul?
The defence minister said the feds will take ‘immediate and decisive action to rebuild Canada’s defence capacity’—but announced nothing further.
Peacekeeping not apace: feds’ spending plan for UN operations down 42 per cent from 2015-16
Global Affairs Canada is proposing a 15.7-per-cent decline from planned spending of $219.9-million in 2024-25, and a 42.7 per cent decline from the actual spending of $323.9-million in 2015-16.
The misadventures of Navy procurement
Successive governments routinely state ‘nothing is too good for our military,’ and therefore ‘nothing’ is what they get.
Carney’s defence industrial agenda: two steps forward, one step back
The most immediate challenge will be to ensure that the defence acquisitions currently in the pipeline aren’t ground to a halt as the government works its way through the thicket of hurdles.
The procurement problem
Defence procurement does not exist in a vacuum, and must be consistent with the government’s overall foreign and defence policy.
The building blocks for procurement progress
Government, industry, and the Armed Forces need consistency and predictability in a geopolitical environment that has neither.
