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Great White North
Canada military budget to dramatically increase over next decade
2017-06-08
[DW] The announcement comes after US President Donald Trump demanded other NATO countries increase military spending. While the US and NATO welcomed the budget increase, it will still be short of the desired goal.

Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan announced Wednesday that the country's military spending would increase by 70 percent over the next decade.

Sajjan said the increased spending would create "a Canada that is strong at home, secure in North America and engaged in the world."

The plan envisages raising military spending to 1.4 percent of GDP in 10 years.
The plan envisages raising military spending to 1.4 percent of GDP in 10 years.
Golly. Still, their version of the National Health Service doesn't come cheap, and oil prices have fallen sharply since their peak. Savings must be found somewhere.
Canada currently spends 18.9 billion Canadian dollars ($14 billion, 12.4 billion euros) on military spending, but that amount would increase to 32.7 billion Canadian dollars by 2026.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 demanded fellow NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
 nations increase their defensive spending. The US accounts for more than 70 percent of NATO military spending. Only the UK, Estonia, Greece and Poland currently meet the NATO goal of spending at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense.

"If we're serious about our role in the world, we must be serious about funding our military. And we are," said Sajjan.

Ottawa's announcement was well received in the US.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Sort of like savings projections in the American budget. Somehow it never shows up.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-06-08 20:59  

#2  The NEWS of this comes right now. The SPENDING comes in about 10 years or so.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2017-06-08 19:24  

#1  Higher prices for timber?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-06-08 00:34  

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