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Canada unveils updated defence policy, plan to spend $73B over 20 years on renewing military capacity
CTV News ^ | April 8, 2024 | Sarah Ritchie

Posted on 04/08/2024 4:16:41 PM PDT by Reverend Wright

Canada's military will take a bigger role in the North over the next two decades as climate change and increasingly aggressive foes threaten Arctic sovereignty, says a new defence policy document released(opens in a new tab) Monday. ...

It allocates $9.5billion over 20 years to start ramping up production of artillery ammunition, $307 million for early-warning aircraft and $2.7 billion to buy long-range missiles. It projects that annual defence spending will have doubled between 2016 to 2026. All of that still leaves Canada shy of the minimum 2 per cent the NATO allies agreed to spend last July. NATO's latest figures show Canada is spending 1.33 per cent of GDP on defence and is lagging behind a growing number of countries.

(Excerpt) Read more at ctvnews.ca ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: canada; military; trudeau
More fakery from this clown. Including the return of the glued on eyebrows !


1 posted on 04/08/2024 4:16:41 PM PDT by Reverend Wright
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To: Reverend Wright

Funds for surveillance technology and other means to subjugate the truckers.


2 posted on 04/08/2024 4:18:56 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: Reverend Wright

What military?


3 posted on 04/08/2024 4:19:48 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Reverend Wright

Policy on paper is cheaper than buying real stuff . Did you notice Trudeau shaved off his beard when the Castro’s son thing came out ,LOL


4 posted on 04/08/2024 4:20:41 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Reverend Wright

Probably for internal threats They’re pretty much Fortress Canada. Maybe the beavers will rise up, wanting reparations.


5 posted on 04/08/2024 4:24:05 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Reverend Wright

Trudeau also sends out Climate action incentive payment (CAIP) , use it to fill up your car ,LOL


6 posted on 04/08/2024 4:28:50 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Any baking soda for the submarines in that budget?


7 posted on 04/08/2024 5:09:32 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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