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About the CDS
Corporate Priorities for Defence 2004-2005
Adapt to the evolving security environment and enhance
strategic relationships:
- Contribute to the international campaign against
terrorism
- Enhance critical infrastructure protection,
intelligence, research and development, and emergency
response and management capabilities
- Prepare and conduct a defence policy review, if
directed by government
- Strengthen defence and security arrangements with
the United States, including the Canada/U.S.
Planning Group
- Broaden our constituency to engage traditional and
non-traditional stakeholders
- Expand strategic partnerships with other government
departments, other levels of government and the private sector
- Promote other key international defence and security
relationships
Transform and modernize the Canadian Forces:
- Focus strategic planning efforts on the required
capabilities
- Enhance the capability to operate effectively
in joint, interagency and multi-national
environments
- Actively shift resources and effort from lower
to higher priority initiatives to accelerate
the pace of transformation
Develop and Support a Professional, Effective and
Sustainable Defence Team:
- Align recruitment and retention processes to
better meet our needs
- Modernize human resource management
- Encourage and support continuous learning
- Continue to strengthen military health care
- Advance leadership through the promotion of
diversity and inclusiveness in the workforce
- Improve our bilingual capacity
- Promote Wellness and Health
Maximize effectiveness in the management of resources:
- Enhance DND/CF management excellence through a
focus on comptrollership and the advancement of
modern management principles
- Implement the new IM strategy
and governance
- Pursue a culture of excellence in internal
communications
 Report on Plans and Priorities (RPP)
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