Canada will more than double military presence in Latvia: Trudeau

\u0027This is the way forward in modern defence\u0027

Trudeau held a joint press conference with Latvian Prime Minister KriÅ¡jānis Kariņš at the Ādazi military base outside Riga on Monday, where he also greeted some of the 800 Canadian Armed Forces members deployed to the mission.

“This is the way forward in modern defence,” he said. “Almost a dozen countries from across NATO are co-operating, training and working alongside each other and learning valuable lessons from each other that make our collective defence stronger.”Article content Last month, Defence Minister Anita Anand announced that a Leopard 2 tank squadron with 15 tanks and about 130 personnel would join the mission starting this fall. Canada has also pledged to buy air defence and coastal defence systems for the mission.Article content

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