Canada’s defence spending spike leads to boost in RCAF flight times: commander
One year into her new job as commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Lt.-Gen. Jamie Speiser-Blanchet said she could see an immediate effect of the federal government’s defence spending boost: RCAF pilots are spending more time in the air. 1:57 Trump ‘won the argument’ on NATO defence spending: Carney at summit The past year saw Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government announce a major spike in defence spending as it rushed to meet its NATO spending commitments.
- ▪One year into her new job as commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Lt.-Gen.
- ▪Jamie Speiser-Blanchet said she could see an immediate effect of the federal government’s defence spending boost: RCAF pilots are spending more time in the air.
- ▪1:57 Trump ‘won the argument’ on NATO defence spending: Carney at summit The past year saw Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government announce a major spike in defence spending as it rushed to meet its NATO spending commitments.
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- ▪ Spike in defence spending is boosting flight times, RCAF chief says — The Globe and Mail
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One year into her new job as commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Lt.-Gen. Jamie Speiser-Blanchet said she could see an immediate effect of the federal government’s defence spending boost: RCAF pilots are spending more time in the air. In a recent interview with The Canadian Press, Speiser-Blanchet also acknowledged that preparing the entire service for what she described as a rapid and “giant transformation” — rebuilding the whole plane while it’s flying, so to speak — sometimes gives her pause.“It’s that pace of change sometimes that worries me a little,” she said.She said while she’s “very comfortable” with the decisions made preparing for modernization, it’s “the thought that there’s something we should be doing now to make sure that we’re set up for success in the future and…
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