A sensible idea

J.L. Granatstein has a couple of good ideas that should be seriously considered by today's MPs. A Defence Caucus is an excellent start to begin removing some of the partisan games that revolve around military issues.

It's time Canada develops a real defence policy
J.L. Granatstein, Special to The Windsor Star
Published: Tuesday, July 29, 2008

What is all too clear is that playing "gotcha" politics with defence has been, and is, a disaster. Canada is fighting a war today and doing it rather well despite 40 years of governmental neglect of defence. But if our parliamentarians could agree on the broad outlines of a defence policy for the next 25 years, and if individual members of Parliament could begin to develop the kind of expertise that they need to comment intelligently on the Canadian Forces' roles, equipment, personnel needs, and budgets, these would be long steps toward national maturity.

His assessment of a few of our defence critics, past and present, will certainly resonate with a few regular Torch readers. No surprises there.