Instead of grumbling about Canada’s defence spending, Americans should look in their own backyard
members, it is not meeting its commitment of two per cent of GDP in defence spending. It is only at 1.3 per cent.There should be no disputing this, nor the fact that the Canadian military could definitely use the upgrades.failings, they might want to examine their own, which they don’t.
But he was largely ignored. There is no rethinking going on, no pressure to limit the spending surge that will soon likely reach a trillion U.S. dollars a year. If Washington had curbed its defence budgets over the years so as to only double those of its adversaries, one wonders how many trillions could have been saved for pressing social causes.
Other billions are squandered by the Pentagon on being horrendously overcharged by suppliers, on weapons of mass uselessness, on bureaucratic waste.
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