Canada's military readiness is suffering from a lack of investment and the federal government must ensure that desperately needed new money actually gets spent, experts in defence and procurement say.
Cpl. Nicolaus Lalopoulos takes part in a Canadian Armed Forces training flight at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, in March. Defence spending is a key question in the federal government's upcoming budget.
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