Submission to the Standing Committee on National Security and Defence
In the course of this paper it will be shown that defence funding has been the victim, not the cause, of the financial problems which Canada has faced; it will be argued that the results of this victimization have damaged Canadian industry and Canada’s international reputation and influence; and it will be demonstrated that the traditional manner whereby National Defence has been funded in the past three decades has become unworkable and a new formula is needed. By N.D. Brodeur, Vice-Admiral (Ret’d) Read the entire paper…