OTTAWA - Another penny-pinching federal budget is mere months away, but Defence Minister Peter MacKay says he'll enter 2013 expecting the military to remain a strong fighting force.
"The vulnerability and the volatility of the security environment is increasingly of concern," MacKay told QMI Agency in a year-end interview. "That's why I would suggest that we have to continue down this path of properly resourcing, funding, training and preparing the Canadian Forces."
The Canadian Forces has struggled to implement a 2011 report by retired lieutenant general Andrew Leslie that called for "more tooth and less tail" by reducing paper-pushing bureaucrats in Ottawa.
