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Choosing new CDS ‘like electing a pope except there’s no white smoke at the end’
F-35 procurement, billions of dollars of cuts to DND are some of the challenges Lt.-Gen. Tom Lawson will deal with as Canada’s new chief of defence staff.
Photograph by Jake Wright, The Hill Times
Welcome to your new job: Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Lieutenant-General Tom Lawson, pictured on the Hill last Monday, as Canada’s new chief of defence staff. Mr. Lawson will have his hands full with the F-35 procurement and budget cuts to the Department of National Defence in his new job. Military observers say he’s ‘intelligent’ and will do a good job in his new role.
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Choosing new CDS ‘like electing a pope except there’s no white smoke at the end’
F-35 procurement, billions of dollars of cuts to DND are some of the challenges Lt.-Gen. Tom Lawson will deal with as Canada’s new chief of defence staff.
Photograph by Jake Wright, The Hill Times
Welcome to your new job: Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Lieutenant-General Tom Lawson, pictured on the Hill last Monday, as Canada’s new chief of defence staff. Mr. Lawson will have his hands full with the F-35 procurement and budget cuts to the Department of National Defence in his new job. Military observers say he’s ‘intelligent’ and will do a good job in his new role.
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