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Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

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I have long said that you could fund the CAF to 4 percent of GDP, but we would still lag behind in NATO and be much the same where we are.

It's never the money, it's politics. It's procedures. It's the pork-barreling in our defence spending that makes us a paper tiger in NATO.

My only hope in all of this for the CAF and the GoC, whatever the political stripe that may be, is that it will rouse them out of the "Peace Dividend" slumber. The world has been unstable since 1945. We have used geography, proximity, and association as a Defence Policy ever since. ICBMs don't care how close to the U.S. or how far from Russia/China we are.

Don't give us a dime more, but let us spend money on defence like it matters. The fact we follow the same rules for purchasing a fighter aircraft as we do for buying office furniture for a Service Canada office is disgraceful. Don't treat defense procurement as a stimulus package for Canadian Industry. There I said it.

We spend so much money, time, and effort trying to get that money to stay in Canada; be it by awarding contracts to companies with no capability to produce items without first "retooling" and"developing the production lines", or by hamstringing perfectly competent and competitive bidders by forcing the project to be made in St. Margaret de Poutain de Champignon, QC because the ruling government either lost the seat in the election, or won it with promises.

We spend so much money and staff hours jumping through TBS regulations that are great for other departments, but are terrible for defence procurement. Some items you have to sole source, because there are technologies and capabilities no one else makes. By doing the bid process, you get companies clamoring for a project they can't deliver on, but because they tick the bright boxes on the score sheet....

I truly and honestly belief we need to split from PSPC and legislate that its not beholden to TBS, only to the PBO/PCO. The guiding principles of this new Defence Procurement department should be "Off the shelf, from somewhere else" if there isn't an industry in Canada.

BOOTFORGEN has demonstrated how well we do when we are able to actually get what we need, instead of lining the pockets of a Canadian company that got lucky.

That, but with tanks, fighters, ships, weapons systems....
 
Canadians do not have a 'right' to enter the US, just like Americans don't have a 'right' to enter Canada.
When you enter another Country you are in fact a 'guest' in their house and must follow their laws and customs. A person or a country can make a decision at any time to limit the guests or the numbers of guests coming into their house, its their right to do so.
The US could easily decide to do this. Look at what the Europeans within the EU have done to us and the Americans starting next year -


This could easily, easily be applied here by the Americans to us.
Im aware of an eTA, I work in immigration civvie side. They're also not visas and very different matters. eTA are shakedowns essentially, they're issued on arrival with no human checking them. Visas have to be approved one by one with an immigration officer who can refuse them at any time. I'm saying it's completely unfeasible economically for US Canada visas especially if you consider the impact on some very powerful corporations/industries.
 
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Trudeau gets an earful on defence spending from nearly one-quarter of the U.S. Senate​

Lawmakers from both parties tell PM to come to NATO summit with plan to meet target​


There may be something to this conveying stuff after all. How often do you see both Republicans and Democrats agreeing on anything.
He's managed to bring them together.
What a guy !
Seriously I don't care how much the Canadian government keeps telling us just how Joe Biden loves us ( and he most certainly doesn't)
If you want something from the American government you better be nice to both Houses of Congress.
 
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Trudeau gets an earful on defence spending from nearly one-quarter of the U.S. Senate​

Lawmakers from both parties tell PM to come to NATO summit with plan to meet target​


I’m surprised 1/4 of the US Senate knows where Canada is, let alone our budget.
 
More to the point, I’m surprised only 18 of 32 NATO nations are on track to meet 2% GDP.
 
Even more to the point, how did NATO grow to 32 nations and yet remain challenged to meet 1 adversary head on.
 
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There is a way for Trudeau to take this head on- "sure, I'll give you 2 and probably 3% commitment right now-- if you let us into AUKUS, I'll cut a cheque for our membership tomorrow, otherwise bugger off."
 
There is a way for Trudeau to take this head on- "sure, I'll give you 2 and probably 3% commitment right now-- if you let us into AUKUS, I'll cut a cheque for our membership tomorrow, otherwise bugger off."
Would you trust a guy that said he was going to join your hockey team, then delayed his dues and only played in the defensive end of the rink? And refused to engage in checking and chirping? And used old skates and wooden sticks that were pre owned?
 
Would you trust a guy that said he was going to join your hockey team, then delayed his dues and only played in the defensive end of the rink? And refused to engage in checking and chirping? And used old skates and wooden sticks that were pre owned?
Well, exactly. I don’t trust DND with a 2% budget either. But for him, he never does what he says, but he always says enough to dodge the issue. I don’t know if he can on this one, we’ll see. Maybe he will pull us out of NATO and pony up all of our defence cash for NORAD. No submarines, tanks and infantry battalions needed. Bailing on NATO has been a longtime ambition of the Trudeau family anyway.
Rest assured he’s not going to move the needle much on defence spending, but he will say and do whatever it takes to make it look like he is “taking bold action”, and of course blame everyone else.
 
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Maybe he will pull us out of NATO and pony up all of our defence cash for NORAD. No submarines, tanks and infantry battalions needed. Bailing on NATO has been a longtime ambition of the Trudeau family anyway.
This would be the most disastrous foreign policy move in Canadian history.

Our NATO participation is intertwined within everything from trade deals with the EU, the G7, and NORAD. The U.S. would close doors Trudeau never knew were doors, and our economy and way of life would somehow be further in the shitter. NATO and our participation in it is far more than an annoying insurance policy we pay into for little perceived gain.

The fact that Canadian politicians for the last 60 years haven't been able to see the forest for the trees in this regard is a separate matter all together.
 
Rest assured he’s not going to move the needle much on defence spending, but he will say and do whatever it takes to make it look like he is “taking bold action”, and of course blame everyone else.
At the 2:30 minute mark. Harper, Harper.

Justin Trudeau Gets MAD Talking To His Mainstream Media Reporters

 
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