Replacing Anita Anand with Bill Blair as Defence Minister can only prolong Canada’s laggard defence status
Canada’s Armed Forces face a plethora of urgent challenges that must be confronted now, from procurement to recruitment to cultural reform. TheMs. Anand had proven to be an effective defence minister. A much-promised defence review, now expected early next year, is supposed lay out a road map for attracting new recruits, improving the procurement process and replacing obsolete equipment.
First off, the forces need stem-to-stern reform of their culture, in which both sexism and racism are far too entrenched. The appointment “is not an indictment of Blair,” opined Peter Loewen, director of the Munk School of Global Policy & Public Affairs at the University of Toronto, “it’s an indictment of what the Prime Minister said he wanted to be doing in defence spending.”
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