David McGuinty: “This is the execution of a plan that we’ve been devising and working on for some time.”

It’s a bargain of reciprocity, and that bargain is tested most profoundly when the country is called to defend itself.

“the performative nature of an administration in the United States and understand the importance of the military-to-military co-operation, which continues,”

The job of the minister of defence is to ensure that the women and men of the Canadian Armed Forces get the equipment that meet their operational needs and requirements.

Confederation is a national bargain renewed through generations by what Canadians do for one another, particularly in wartime.