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There has been a steady drum beat of late wherein all the usual suspects have been echoing their age-old chorus that Canada must increase its defence spending drastically. Their hook, of course, is that global security has been drastically eroded following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas terror attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which sparked an eight-month, ongoing Israeli military intervention in Gaza.
' The part that I cannot fathom is that among all of these Canadians and American stakeholders clamouring for Canada to spend more on defence, no one is even discussing what they want that money spent on. Canada already wastes a boatload of money on botched, delayed, and overpriced procurement projects. If it was increased capability in terms of weapons and warriors, Canada could field a far-better, more-effective fighting force by simply buying proven weapons off the shelf.
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