defence spending

At an unscripted question-and-answer session, the PM opened up on his view of Canada in the world, from defence spending to populist nationalism

As the House breaks for summer, there’s carbon pricing, Indigenous reconciliation, economic worries—and more problem files for the Trudeau government

Opinion: Despite a policy overhaul, the 2018 budget has set out virtually no new spending for the fundamentals of Canada’s military. That’s a problem.

Successive governments haven’t followed through on spending promises. Is there any reason this government should expect to behave differently?

Evan Solomon and David Perry hash out Liberal headaches on the military file.

The U.K. High Commissioner to Canada discusses calls to increase defence spending and the Alexander Litvinenko report

The eternal F-35 debate has hit the campaign trail with engines blazing, further complicating what we thought we knew about left-right parties

How can one of the world’s wealthiest countries still have citizens living in medieval conditions?

Maclean’s is your destination for the 2015 election. Start with our in-depth primers on the big issues, including defence spending

Politicians so often make grandiose claims, and these are so rarely taken seriously, that testing them against facts might seem a low-yield exercise. Who, you might well ask, really cares? Yet I wonder if Conservative assertions about how no previous federal government has poured so much money into the Canadian Forces might be due for a corrective.

Fuel, oil, maintenance and salaries make up the difference, according to the Minister of Defence

DND officials reportedly didn’t disclose $600-million reno