Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[PPCLI Guy]

Do you think we would have met our 2% if the Harris had won the last presidential election, or Trump hadn't overturned the apple cart on NATO ?

Who fucken cares? The reality is that there has been a dramatic increase in funding for the military that goes beyond mere announcements.

How about we take the win for once ferchrisakes.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Who fucken cares? The reality is that there has been a dramatic increase in funding for the military that goes beyond mere announcements.

How about we take the win for once ferchrisakes.

lol looking to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!

 

[Infanteer]

Its on the books for the reform, its separate from 6 CCSB.

Nope. See the FRAGO.

 

[HavokFour]

Gagetown is getting a bit of facelift. Housing, air defense, and more.

CFB Halifax is going to be seeing $1.2B for itself.

$648M for 14 Wing Greenwood for 2 new support facilities.

And $180M to build the Combatant Training and Integration Centre for the RCN's future River's.

More than $1 billion going to Base Gagetown as part of military rebuilding​

Prime Minister Carney announces Canada has achieved the NATO 2% defence spending target

For the past 10 months, we have moved at unprecedented speed and scale – working across over a dozen federal departments and agencies to spend more than $63 billion, the largest year-over-year increase to Canada’s defence spending in generations.

www.pm.gc.ca

 

[ytz]

Do you think we would have met our 2% if the Harris had won the last presidential election, or Trump hadn't overturned the apple cart on NATO ?

With Carney? Yes. With anybody else? No.

For whatever reason (and I'm not complaining) the guy thinks defence is important and sees it as an actual economic driver. None of his predecessors have thought that way. And I'm not sure his successor will either.

 

[MilEME09]

Gagetown is getting a bit of facelift. Housing, air defense, and more.

CFB Halifax is going to be seeing $1.2B for itself.

$648M for 14 Wing Greenwood for 2 new support facilities.

And $180M to build the Combatant Training and Integration Centre for the RCN's future River's.

More than $1 billion going to Base Gagetown as part of military rebuilding​

Prime Minister Carney announces Canada has achieved the NATO 2% defence spending target

For the past 10 months, we have moved at unprecedented speed and scale – working across over a dozen federal departments and agencies to spend more than $63 billion, the largest year-over-year increase to Canada’s defence spending in generations.

www.pm.gc.ca

im really curious about that air defense bit, cause it aint the GBAD project, is this simulators of some kind or other training infrastructure for GBAD?

 

[GR66]

With Carney? Yes. With anybody else? No.

For whatever reason (and I'm not complaining) the guy thinks defence is important and sees it as an actual economic driver. None of his predecessors have thought that way. And I'm not sure his successor will either.

I'd count myself as one of those generally approving of where Carney appears to be heading (time will tell what comes of it) but I have my doubts that he would be so hawkish on defence were there not the pressure of Trump's policies.

The tariffs, talk of ending/changing CUSMA, America first trade policies, talk of annexation, etc. in addition to the general global instability that Trump has created drives a lot of the sovereignty-focused policies being pursued by PMMC.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Gagetown is getting a bit of facelift. Housing, air defense, and more.

CFB Halifax is going to be seeing $1.2B for itself.

$648M for 14 Wing Greenwood for 2 new support facilities.

And $180M to build the Combatant Training and Integration Centre for the RCN's future River's.

More than $1 billion going to Base Gagetown as part of military rebuilding​

Prime Minister Carney announces Canada has achieved the NATO 2% defence spending target

For the past 10 months, we have moved at unprecedented speed and scale – working across over a dozen federal departments and agencies to spend more than $63 billion, the largest year-over-year increase to Canada’s defence spending in generations.

www.pm.gc.ca

Never understood why the previous JT government did not see that rebuilding base infrastructure would count to the defense spending our allies wanted and yet also appease the peaceniks in his party that he is not buying "bad stuff" and providing jobs and many feel good announcements.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Almost every base and station except NDHQ is full of old broken buildings that need major renovations.

 

[Eaglelord17]

With Carney? Yes. With anybody else? No.

For whatever reason (and I'm not complaining) the guy thinks defence is important and sees it as an actual economic driver. None of his predecessors have thought that way. And I'm not sure his successor will either.

I think it honestly just comes down to Carney being a actual serious politician who understands that sovereignty isn’t free and if you can’t defend yourself you exist solely based on the good will of others.

 

[ytz]

I'd count myself as one of those generally approving of where Carney appears to be heading (time will tell what comes of it) but I have my doubts that he would be so hawkish on defence were there not the pressure of Trump's policies.

The tariffs, talk of ending/changing CUSMA, America first trade policies, talk of annexation, etc. in addition to the general global instability that Trump has created drives a lot of the sovereignty-focused policies being pursued by PMMC.

I get the skepticism. Honestly. But from where I sit, this doesn't look like, "What's the minimum we can do to get the US off our backs." This looks a lot more like, "What is the most we can get out of our dollars (in multiple ways)?". He really could have been far less stingy if he wanted. Especially looking at some of the plans that are further out. I honestly think he believes this is beneficial to the economy.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

I get the skepticism. Honestly. But from where I sit, this doesn't look like, "What's the minimum we can do to get the US off our backs." This looks a lot more like, "What is the most we can get out of our dollars (in multiple ways)?". He really could have been far less stingy if he wanted. Especially looking at some of the plans that are further out. I honestly think he believes this is beneficial to the economy.

He is far better than JT was, but don't forget for one minute that he is also a part of a party that happily ran JT until it began to hurt the party, only then did they get rid of him. The same party and the powers behind the party is there. At the end of the day he is reacting to events outside of Canada, both potentiel threats from possible adversaries and from allies.