{"id":513885,"date":"2026-03-04T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513885\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:38:21","slug":"foreign-affairs-minister-anita-anand-set-to-speak-at-ottawa-defence-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513885\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand set to speak at Ottawa defence conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to speak at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute\u2019s annual gathering in Ottawa today.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event is focused on how NATO allies will achieve their pledge to spend the equivalent of five per cent of GDP on defence by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at the two-day event also include Stephen Fuhr, the secretary of state for defence procurement, and Canada\u2019s defence chief Gen. Jennie Carignan.<\/p>\n<p>Another panel features the commanders of the Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda includes discussions about defence spending and the Canadian Armed Forces\u2019 efforts in recruitment and retention. <\/p>\n<p>Former defence minister Bill Blair told the same conference two years ago that the military was in a recruitment \u201cdeath spiral\u201d and that the federal government was unable to spend more on defence.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to speak at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-513885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}