Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Brad Sallows]

By funding Ukrainian pensions they can take money that would otherwise have been allocated for that purpose and spend it on more military matters.

Just use the short version: "Money is fungible".

 

[Castus]

“We need to send $2 billion of military equipment manufactured in Canada to Ukraine to use now. Ukraine can't wait "a few years."

If Canada actually replaced the kit, I agree. But they won’t and everybody knows it.

As for the ammunition, the hold up must be entirely ideological because by now Canada could have scaled up production of at least that. It’s totally mystifying why we have not done so when throwing so much money around.

Ukraine will be around in a couple of years and it’s the better and proper role for Europe to see to that much more aggressively than we should ever have to be - and if they don’t then that’s on Europe and not us.

Our contributions militarily to Ukraine while seemingly large to Canadians, (you of course know they are just a NATO rounding error so far), but huge in the context of what little Canada had to offer- it has now become a sacrifice and not much more than that.

I’m sorry but I’ve come to the view that we are spending far too much money on Ukraine’s needs - both military and civil- and the whole thing is so far out of balance that feds are now going to position contributions to Ukraine as part of Canadian defence spending. The CAF will never be treated with the happy largess that Ukraine receives from Ottawa and so I don’t support it at the current levels until we have things together here.

More than a part of me suspects that the Deputy Prime Minister cares more for the defence of Ukraine than the defence of Canada - or at least sees 'opportunities for cost savings'. After all, she has an ethnic tie to Ukraine that she clearly values quite highly. I might speculate that she is comfortable spending Canadian money on Ukraine's defence, and American money on Canada's defence, since we've been getting away with this for so long.

 

[MilEME09]

What Spending Two Per Cent of GDP on National Defence Means for Canada - Canadian Global Affairs Institute

 

[markppcli]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1776960918024331468

Get your pop corn ready

 

[rmc_wannabe]

Get your pop corn ready

I see it going about the same this:

 

[daftandbarmy]

Get your pop corn gun ready

There, FTFY

 

[SeaKingTacco]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1776960918024331468

Get your pop corn ready

Oh great.

Another set of promises we won’t bother to keep…

 

[Fabius]

Its telling of the PMs priorities in that he himself personally announces the large dollar figure social welfare spending programs that intrude into provincial space yet delegates to his subordinate cabinet ministers the announcement on a core federal responsibility.

Likely not an indication of anything substantive tomorrow but we will see.

 

[MilEME09]

Its telling of the PMs priorities in that he himself personally announces the large dollar figure social welfare spending programs that intrude into provincial space yet delegates to his subordinate cabinet ministers the announcement on a core federal responsibility.

Likely not an indication of anything substantive tomorrow but we will see.

And this being released as a zoom meeting? Really?

 

[Fabius]

Just the Tech Briefing on Zoom I think.

 

[MilEME09]

Just the Tech Briefing on Zoom I think.

Ah yes my mistake

 

[PuckChaser]

I would absolutely love for the Herc they're offering for media to travel to Trenton not show up or leave them trapped in Trenton due to maint issues while they're announcing 20% cuts to O&M funding.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

I would absolutely love for the Herc they're offering for media to travel to Trenton not show up or leave them trapped in Trenton due to maint issues while they're announcing 20% cuts to O&M funding.

Or get retasked mid-flight for LENTUS support.

 

[dapaterson]

H Herc or J Herc? That's how to tell if the DPU is "keep the really old stuff running" or "newer stuff".

 

[MilEME09]

I would absolutely love for the Herc they're offering for media to travel to Trenton not show up or leave them trapped in Trenton due to maint issues while they're announcing 20% cuts to O&M funding.

Hanger will be closed due to the door mechanism failing

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Hanger will be closed due to the door mechanism failing

There is nowhere near enough hangarage for our hercs.

Most sit outside, most of the time.

 

[rnkelly]

I remember first hearing about this ‘update’ and thinking it made sense just to tweak/refresh and publish in short order. It’s several years later now and it’s still being called an update which seems to under appreciate the situation wrt world events and CAF challenges. Quite concerning and my expectations are low. I hope to be surprised tomorrow by some substance and acknowledgement of the requirements to achieve the stated objectives.

 

[Dana381]

There is nowhere near enough hangarage for our hercs.

Most sit outside, most of the time.

That's sad because hangers are cheaper than cost of the maintenance from not having them.

We had a saying when I worked at the farm. "You pay for an equipment shed whether you build one or not"

 

[daftandbarmy]

Think of the Staff Officers!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1776998382340276452

 

[McG]

That's sad because hangers are cheaper than cost of the maintenance from not having them.

We had a saying when I worked at the farm. "You pay for an equipment shed whether you build one or not"

It takes fewer levels of approval to wastefully burn $100M in vote 1 over a decade than to spend half that in vote 5 at the start of a system’s life cycle.