Procrustes, 11 August 2020. The recent confirmation that the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) will conduct and deliver yet another report on the mounting costs of Ottawa’s preferred bid winner for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) program in October 2020 could lead to a reversal of course on this slowly evolving […]
Defence Budget
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The latest Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) report, “The Cost of Canada’s Surface Combatants: 2019 Update,” issued on 21 June 2019, has revised the latest cost for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) project at $69.8 billion over 26 years; $8 billion more than the 2017 PBO report estimation. This consists of […]
An interesting study was just published by Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) by Ross Fetterly. Governments are always tempted to slice bits off various departmental budgets to cut costs. But, as this article shows for the Department of National Defence, this can actually mean very little cost savings, and yet […]
13 July. David Dunlop. Now that the 2018 NATO Summit has apparently passed a referendum to have all NATO countries contribute as a minimum at least 2% GDP to defence, does this mean Canada will be doing this no later than 2024? The Prime Minister has just met with the […]
At a speech at CANSEC in Ottawa on 31 May, MND Harjit Sajjan called for Boeing to withdraw its trade complaint against Bombardier. He also noted that the Canadian government was willing to cancel the purchase of the Super Hornet jets from Boeing if this dispute continued because Canada required […]
22 March 2017. The federal budget is due to be presented in the next few weeks. With fiscal room shrinking, and an uncertain relationship with Canada’s biggest trading partner, it will be interesting to see how the Department of National Defence fares. Also of interest is the fact that the […]
I am at a loss to explain Mr. Hansen’s logic, and not General Leslie’s in his letter to the Chronicle Herald (Leslie’s Logic Alarming, 31 October), and in his 27 October Broadsides article (A Commentary on Rough Seas Ahead by Andrea Gunn). I have listened to Evan Solomon’s interview with […]
The Thursday, October 22, 2015, issue of the ChronicleHerald (Metro Edition) carried an article by Andrea Gunn (Ottawa Bureau) entitled "Rough Seas Ahead" (p.1) that has caused some confusion about my contributions to it. I wish to correct one key issue. The Report on Transformation 2011, does not, in fact, […]
The following announcement was sent out by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute: Ottawa, 11 June 2014 - The Conference of Defence Associations Institute is pleased to release Vimy Paper 19: "The Growing Gap Between Defence Ends and Means: The Disconnect between the Canada First Defence Strategy and the Current […]
Tim Dunne’s article on government expenditures shows that provincial spending on health and education are huge in comparison to what the federal government spends on defence. The province of Quebec spent 30.4 percent more and the province of Ontario spent 108 percent more on health care alone than the estimated […]