News Snapshot:
There are any number of items you could include on a list of Canada’s defence spending failures. There’s the fact the Canadian Armed Forces has a chronic recruitment problem that has left it short 10,000 personnel and counting. There’s our minuscule and antiquated submarine fleet – four diesel-powered vessels purchased from the British army in the 1990s. The Victoria-class subs cost billions to keep in service, and their last-century vintage sinks Ottawa’s claim that it can preserve Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic. That naval deficit is made worse by Canada’s embarrassing exclusion from the AUKUS military pact, in which three...
