John Robson: Canada Can’t Afford More Failure on the Defence File

Published on January 8, 2024

Commentary In April 2023, then-Defence Minister Anita Anand claimed a $400 million National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System provided by Canada was “en route” to Ukraine. But it wasn’t, and still isn’t. So if you’re concerned about instability abroad, our broken government, and the ominous juxtaposition of the two, it’s worth pondering how such a bizarre thing could occur. Of course, she might have just said it to get good press of the sort the initial NASAMS promise produced in January 2023, when Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelenskyy duly Tweet-thanked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “your true leadership in standing for democracy and human rights.” But it would be too silly for it to have been a brazen lie given how fast such lies disintegrate....

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