Scheer rolls out an ambitious defence agenda, but critics ask: Where’s the money? | CBC News
Scheer, in the first of a series of election-framing speeches for the Conservatives, pledged yesterday to wrap his arms around Canada’s allies, take the politics out of defence procurement, buy new submarines, join the U.S. ballistic missile defence program and expand the current military mission in Ukraine in an undefined way.
What was absent from the Conservative leader’s speech — a greatest-hits medley of road-tested Conservative policy favourites, blended with jabs at the Trudeau government’s record — was an answer to the first question his supporters usually ask on these occasions:
How are you going to pay for it?
Other ideas that often go nowhere filled out the rest of Scheer’s speech — like the promise of a fix for the Canadian military’s complex, cumbersome system for buying equipment.