<b>Defence expert Kim Richard Nossal presents a damning indictment of defence procurement in Canada, and shows how to fix it.</b><br><br> Defence procurement in Canada is a mess. New equipment is desperately needed for the Canadian Armed Forces, but most projects are behind schedule, over budget, or both. Not only has mismanagement cost Canadian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, it has also deprived Canada and the CAF of much-needed military capacity.<br> <br> Successive governments — both Liberal and Conservative — have managed the complexities of defence procurement so poorly that i