Bezan, who served as the Conservative defence critic in the most recent session of Parliament, said the letter delivered from the U.S. government to the Department of National Defence, bluntly criticizing Canadian defence spending, should make it clear to Ottawa that it needs to step up its game if it wants to protect both itself and its core alliances in an increasingly restive world.
“There are some serious security risks out there that Canada needs to be a part of and if we’re going to address it seriously, then we need to figure out how we’re going to spend more.”
Bezan pointed to the Arctic as one particular area where he thinks Canada should be making a pointed effort to assert itself military in order to counter the threat of militarization by Russia, also an Arctic nation, as well as China, which has been eyeing the region for resource exploitation and commercial shipping.
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