{"id":34108,"date":"2016-01-15T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34108"},"modified":"2016-01-13T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T21:36:59","slug":"defence-minister-harjit-sajjan-announces-full-defence-review-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/defence-minister-harjit-sajjan-announces-full-defence-review-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence minister Harjit Sajjan announces full defence review for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embassynews.ca\/news\/2016\/01\/13\/defence-minister-military-review-to-be-completed-by-end-of-2016\/48092\" target=\"_blank\">Marie-Danielle Smith<\/a> on the recent DND announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says he plans to complete a thorough defence policy review by the end of 2016\u2014and the public will be asked to participate.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Embassy<\/em> Jan. 12, Mr. Sajjan confirmed that Department of National Defence officials are already identifying how the review, or Defence White Paper, will be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Public consultation will be involved and foreign allies will be consulted, he said. The review is expected to set a road map for the next 10 to 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make sure that we get the &#8216;How&#8217; part. It\u2019s so important,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t get that right then the quality\u2019s not going to be there at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe British just did a defence review,&#8221; he said, referring to the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 released by the Cameron government on Nov. 23. &#8220;Australia is about to release theirs, and especially it\u2019s important for us to be able to learn from those lessons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he recently spoke with UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon in London. \u201cIt is helping me to shape how Canada can look at doing [the defence review],\u201d he said, noting the UK had used an interactive website to get public input.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got some really key ideas that Fallon provided, and I\u2019m looking forward to reading the Australian review when it comes out as well,\u201d Mr. Sajjan said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said the credibility and relevancy of the review was important. \u201cWe can do a white paper of everything on the wishlist, but if you don\u2019t have the budget to support it it really doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defence officials declared the previous Harper government&#8217;s military wishlist, the Canada First Defence Strategy, unaffordable in 2011, but no updated document was ever released.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie-Danielle Smith on the recent DND announcement: Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says he plans to complete a thorough defence policy review by the end of 2016\u2014and the public will be asked to participate. In an interview with Embassy Jan. 12, Mr. Sajjan confirmed that Department of National Defence officials are already identifying how the review, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-34108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-military","tag-canadianforces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8S8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34109,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34108\/revisions\/34109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}