Policy Advice

CDSN COVID Response Recommendations and Future Directions / COVID - Recommandations de réponse du RCDS et orientations futures

On April 27th, members of the Canadian Defence and Security Network, along with participants from MINDS-funded networks (SPNET, DSF, NAADSN) met online to develop preliminary answers to questions we received from the MINDS program at the Department of National Defence as well as questions we developed. The questions largely fit into the five themes of the CDSN: Operations, Security, Personnel, Procurement, and Civil-Military Relations. Below, we briefly present the responses which represent a consensus (not every individual or organization agreed to every single response). The CDSN will develop fuller discussions over the next few months, but the urgency of the crisis compels us to release our recommendations and questions as soon as we can. Before discussing each group’s findings, one common theme emerged from each group’s discussion: The government ought to consider a new Defence Policy Review as many of the assumptions of the previous one have shifted. Many group findings overlapped with other groups.