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Leveraging defence infrastructure maintenance and repair to support the economy

Increasing maintenance and repair expenditures on defence infrastructure across the country would bring immediate effects to the Canadian economy in several important ways.

DND has recently invested additional money in infrastructure recapitalization—such as the major upgrade of hangars and training facilities at the Air Force base at Trenton, Ont., pictured here in July 2018—but the defence property portfolio has endured periods of chronic underinvestment in infrastructure since the 1990s, which has impacted the maintenance and repair of infrastructure, and recapitalization efforts have fallen short of need, writes Ross Fetterly. Department of National Defence photograph by 8 Wing Public Affairs

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BY ROSS FETTERLY
November 20, 2019

Opinion | BY ROSS FETTERLY | November 20, 2019

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