Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada and its NATO allies have agreed to substantially hike their defence spending target to five per cent of annual GDP by 2035.
So 5% seems like a lot… but we have definitely been under spending for awhile and could use some catch up, and 1.5% of that is earmarked for infrastructure, so maybe we’ll at least get something useful to everyone and not just the military out of that extra 1.5%. Like a port doesn’t necessarily have to be a military port, but the infrastructure could be used by the military if needed. Unless they really mean that has to be a military port, in which case, meh.
Long term though that seems a bit bonkers.
Edit: also were going to need to spend a lot of money on arctic stuff as global warming proceeds, at least in the mid-term. I bet a lot of it will go into that.
Edit: just another example, a high-speed rail connecting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City could be part of that. It would allow the military to deploy around the region much faster. Spend some money on some special high speed military train cars as well to help make the point.
Exactly, and for now there’s some reason to give Carney the benefit of the doubt that a good chunk would be spent domestically. I’m still skeptical but I gave some hope that’s how it’ll turn out.
So 5% seems like a lot… but we have definitely been under spending for awhile and could use some catch up, and 1.5% of that is earmarked for infrastructure, so maybe we’ll at least get something useful to everyone and not just the military out of that extra 1.5%. Like a port doesn’t necessarily have to be a military port, but the infrastructure could be used by the military if needed. Unless they really mean that has to be a military port, in which case, meh.
Long term though that seems a bit bonkers.
Edit: also were going to need to spend a lot of money on arctic stuff as global warming proceeds, at least in the mid-term. I bet a lot of it will go into that.
Edit: just another example, a high-speed rail connecting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City could be part of that. It would allow the military to deploy around the region much faster. Spend some money on some special high speed military train cars as well to help make the point.
Exactly, and for now there’s some reason to give Carney the benefit of the doubt that a good chunk would be spent domestically. I’m still skeptical but I gave some hope that’s how it’ll turn out.
Ya, like maybe let’s build some ammo manufacturing capacity (as an example) instead of just buying it all out of country.