Posted on 09/01/2014 1:31:41 PM PDT by mac_truck
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper has been one of the toughest-talking leaders throughout the Ukraine crisis, yet newly released figures show National Defence is expected to face an even deeper budget hole in the coming year than previously anticipated.
The ongoing reductions come as the prime minister is expected to resist pressure from allies at this week's NATO summit to spend substantially more on the military.
Annual spending on the military, when compared with 2011, is slated to shrink by a total of $2.7-billion in 2015, according to a briefing note prepared for the deputy defence minister.
That would be almost $300-million more than earlier internal estimates, and roughly $600-million higher than the figure defence official acknowledged last fall when they rolled out the department's renewal plan.
In addition to planned cuts under the government's strategic review, deficit reduction action plan, and wage restraint measures, defence is expected to face "other planning pressures," according to a Sept. 16, 2013 memo.
Those pressures include, among other things, severance for laid off civilians at defence; the bill for the Harper government's pledge to sustain newly trained Afghan forces; and the cost of operating the Public Works secretariat that is picking a replacement for the CF-18s.
National Defense has repeatedly said that it — like other government departments — is expected to contribute towards the government's drive towards a balanced budget next year.
The issue of how much allies fork out for their militaries will be among the major closed-door topics when NATO leaders meet this week in Wales.
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I believe that Texas supplies more military personnel every year, than all of Canada.
Let the ones that want to annihilate each each go ahead and see what civilizations develop from being forced to develop.
If none develop ... the enemy(s) of freedom will be clearly defined, have a flag and a uniform and will be targets for glass factorying.
Treatys ... not foreign aid packages ... should be recognized and honored.
Here is an old post of mine from when I looked into it.
“Texas produced 16,000 active duty in 2004 alone, Canada had 28,000 enlistments from 2003 to 2008.”
“I believe that Texas supplies more military personnel every year, than all of Canada.”
Probably a pretty good guess. Considering the population of Texas is just under 30 million and the population of Canada is just over 30 million.
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Like the rest of the world. “Let’s you and him fight”.
See post 4, it is about a heck of a lot more than Canada’s population only being 35% larger than Texas.
I can envision a time when it does however.
Today it’s Navy is gone and it’s embassies long distant.
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