Growing threats to Canada's security drove $10B surveillance plane purchase, minister says
Defence Minister Bill Blair says a sense of urgency is behind the decision to sole-source a more than $10-billion deal to buy a fleet of new military surveillance planes.
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Defence Minister Bill Blair says a sense of urgency is behind the decision to sole-source a more than $10-billion deal to buy a fleet of new military surveillance planes.