Defence Minister Bill Blair said he’s intently focused on boosting Canada’s military spending and he’s looking for increased cooperation with the incoming U.S. administration and the defence industry to reach the NATO spending target.
“I intend to ask the new administration for some help,” Blair said at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute conference in Ottawa on Nov. 25.
The minister said he needs to spend billions of dollars on new equipment and getting the U.S. Congress to green light foreign sales would be welcomed. Blair said it’s difficult to have a “strategic relational discussion” with U.S. defence companies given the regime governing foreign military sales….