I'm very curious where that billion bucks for capital purchases is going. Hopefully there's some Army love.Canada’s new government is rebuilding, rearming, and reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces - Canada.ca
Today, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Minister of National Defence David McGuinty announced Canada’s plan to increase and accelerate its investments in defence.www.canada.ca
Some more details on dollars
Yes but I’m guessing Ukrainian Army.
That's probably the line items for strengthening the defense industry and partners
I hope that isn't so. It's NATO's to measure, not Canada's. I'd sure like to be able to define my own income taxes to CCRA...The PM has also made clear he doesn’t give a flying frig what “spreadsheet accountants at NATO” think of howcalculates 2%.
Didn't join? I don't know what the vacancy rates were, and can't find hard numbers but I suspect the CAF was a whole lot bigger than it is now.
It was bigger right enough.
Significantly larger percentage of the population back then was in the Canadian Military than now.
Brutal 50+% reduction from 1962-1976.
Canada’s new government is rebuilding, rearming, and reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces - Canada.ca
Today, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Minister of National Defence David McGuinty announced Canada’s plan to increase and accelerate its investments in defence.
Some more details on dollars
The interview was good from the right side of the table - there were some good questions. Not so good from the left side. There was a lot of the expected duck and weave and empty wordy responses. Obviously that is to be expected from someone who doesn't set either the grand policy or the budget but the recruiting and training issue, as an example, could have been answered much better. It certainly left me thinking that fundamental problems have not been solved and we're not on the way to doing so.
The reality is this, if they say we are at 2% based on the new funding announced this week, IF we close the deficit of 13,000 troops (plus the reserve shortfall) and these 13,000 are all paid, receive proper training each year, are equipped and housed, then we should be well close to 2.75%ish of GDP.
I would like to know if the CDS would have chosen different words/phases/answers if she could have spoken in FrenchThe interview was good from the right side of the table - there were some good questions. Not so good from the left side. There was a lot of the expected duck and weave and empty wordy responses. Obviously that is to be expected from someone who doesn't set either the grand policy or the budget but the recruiting and training issue, as an example, could have been answered much better. It certainly left me thinking that fundamental problems have not been solved and we're not on the way to doing so.
My very limited press training told me not to do interviews unless you had a message to give and then make it abundantly clear. I didn't really get whatever her message was.
‘So forth and so on’ was used twice. I felt that she was grasping to convey her thoughts in English there and if she was speaking in French a better turn of phrase would have been used.Its not the language or words and phrases but the content or lack thereof.
That entire time the Liberals were in power.
