The Public Accounts of Canada show over a million dollars worth of uniforms were written off in the last fiscal year, which the department says can be largely explained by an inventory correction.
National Defence posted a loss of more than $1.5 million in combat clothing in the last fiscal year, raising questions over the security risks of lost military uniforms.
“Things don’t disappear, and militaries are pretty good in their systems of tracking … it’s hard to believe something that big could be a random accident,” said Kamran Bokhari, a specialist in countering violent extremism at the University of Ottawa.
