"As a minister, I am not here to step away from anything, I am here to own my mistake, but I also have a job to do to deliver for them," says National Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.
Sajjan was supposed to speak at the 8th annual "To the 'Stan and Back" event tonight, but organizer Cheri Elliott says she was told a scheduling conflict had arisen.
Senior defence officials have ordered a curb on non-essential activities across the department, as they look to free up millions of dollars for military operations and other more critical tasks.
The Liberal government has taken the next step towards buying 18 Super Hornet fighter jets on an interim basis, a purchase it hopes to make official by year's end.
The U.S. wants information identifying, to the extent possible, who the asylum seekers are, where they came from, what travel documents were in their possession & how they obtained them, Goodale said.
Key questions for Monday's meeting between Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and his American counterpart: the ongoing commitment to NATO, defence spending levels and peacekeeping operations.
The options include holding a competition, buying a new warplane without a competition, or purchasing an "interim" aircraft as a stop-gap measure until a future competition.
