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First, it was the news that the Liberal government is trying toas part of the government’s overall goal to trim federal spending.
At the same time, he used the occasion to remind parliamentarians that the Canadian Armed Forces have an authorized strength of 115,000 personnel and that the CAF currently has roughly 16,000 positions that are vacant. Interestingly, some pundits chose to link the threatened budget cut with Canada's recent pledge to work towards meeting the NATO proposed goal of spending two per cent of gross domestic product on defence.Canada currently spends roughly 1.3 per cent of GDP on National Defence.
The notion of simply spending an arbitrary amount as being reflective of a nation's commitment to defence was well illustrated in a recentThe target of his piece was the Canadian Surface Combatant program to build 15 new frigates to replace the Royal Canadian Navy's current 12 aging Halifax-class frigates. The gist of Ivison’s argument was that this massive program has been plodding along with a steady stream of delays and cost overruns before the shipyard has even begun to cut steel.
To illustrate his point, Ivison compared a recent U.S. Navy frigate acquisition wherein they paid $1.66 billion per ship, to the now estimated price tag of $5.6 billion per ship, under the Canadian Surface Combatant program.
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