The $8 billion in defence spending announced in the Federal Budget 2022 came with strings — a comprehensive defence review
also announced a comprehensive defence review was in the works — described by a senior government official as a necessary step before setting too many funding priorities in stone.
“There’s going to be a lot of things going on in the policy office of DND, so their ability to juggle all of this is going to be a bit of a challenge,” Saideman said. Such reviews take a long time Perry said, pointing out the 2017 review took nearly two full fiscal years to complete.“It’s kind of strange to be doing that without having a foreign policy or national security review as a framework to guide the defence part,” he said.
“I’m not one of the people who thought the war in Ukraine precipitated the need for a fundamental re-think, and that Strong, Secure, Engaged was totally outdated in terms of the policy direction and the types of things that it said was important,” he said. the COVID-19 pandemic forced CAF to drastically cut the number of new recruits going through basic trainingThe same report stated Canada’s military was short about 2,000 regular-force members and 5,000 reservists by the end of 2020.
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