DND budget trimmed
National Defence is losing $211.1 million or some 0.76% of its $27.5 billion of its projected budget for the current fiscal year, according to supplementary spending estimates tabled today by Treasury Board President Anita Anand. It’s part of a plan to cut $500 million out of overall government spending and Anand, who held the defence portfolio until four months ago, called it “just the first tranche of the results relating to our spending review.” [node:read-more:link]