Internal DND documents show only 5% of planned military housing to be built this year

Significant construction of new units still 2 years away

From Murray Brewster | CBC News

Photo by Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

Defence Minister Bill Blair spent a portion of Thursday touting the Liberal government's plan to build an additional 668 military housing units, of which internal documents show only 36 will be completed this year.

In fact, according to an internal Canadian Forces Housing Authority presentation obtained by CBC News, it will be two years before the program kicks into high-gear and begins delivering relief to hard-pressed soldiers, sailors and aircrew at nine bases across the country.

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