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OTTAWA — The United States and Germany are taking steps to send battle tanks to Ukraine, but Canada still will not say whether it plans to make a similar move to help the war-torn country.
Yet Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly would not say Tuesday whether the day's developments changed anything for Canada.The Canadian Army has 112 Leopard 2 tanks, but some analysts say Ottawa can only give away an inconsequential number without undermining its own training and operational needs. "That economic battlefield is a very important one," she told reporters on the sideline of a cabinet retreat in Hamilton, Ont.
He said Ottawa should consider sending tanks if that doesn't undermine the country's essential needs, and pointed out that reports to Parliament suggest dozens of Canada's light armoured vehicles are about to be replaced."If we’re going to be sending out any of our tanks, we have to make sure that there are tanks being procured to replace anything that goes out of this country.
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