According to a new study, Canada’s military spending under the Liberal Party is near the bottom of 169 nations surveyed (there’s only about 192 countries on the entire planet).
And yet liberals keep telling us the world is a “more dangerous place” after taking Saddam out in the Iraq war. Why are they reducing spending even further then?
National Post
Canada is ranked near the bottom of a list of 169 nations’ military spending, far behind its NATO allies and lagging behind countries such as Croatia and Guinea, finds a report released yesterday by a prestigious international think-tank.
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The report puts Canada’s defence spending at US$10.118-billion, based on 2003 figures, giving us one of the 20 largest military budgets in the world. But as a percentage of our gross domestic product, Canada’s military is among the worst-funded in the world at 1.2%.The NATO average is almost double that amount and Canada’s comparative defence spending trails much smaller and impoverished countries such as Croatia and the west African nation of Guinea, Christopher Langton, the editor of the report, said.
“Croatia spends a little bit more than Canada per capita and considerably more as a percentage of their GDP,” he said in an interview from London. “Your defence spending as a percentage of GDP is below the average for African nations.”
“It’s less than Nigeria or Kenya, which spend 1.8% of their GDP, and Guinea, which is at 1.9%.”
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Although the federal government increased the defence budget by about $800-million in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it has since been clawing back some of that money. This fiscal year it has demanded the Canadian Forces find $144-million in internal savings and next year it plans to take another $184-million.A total of $500-million in potential cuts are being considered over the next few years as the government squeezes the military for savings.
And while the Liberals promised during last summer’s election campaign to add another 5,000 soldiers to the Forces’ depleted ranks, there has been no announcement of additional funding to pay for the additional troops.
One of the reasons cited for lack of spending on the military was that “Canada doesn’t have an obvious threat to its national security that requires a significant increase in its military,” Christopher Langton, editor of the report said. “And there’s no political reason [for Ottawa] to change this that I can see.”
Either this is a case of liberals in denial, or Osama bin Laden really didn’t put Canada on his list of 7 countries to attack and destroy—and I’m just insane.
“Thinking” got too complicated for Liberals after September 10 2001, and so they just pretend it’s always September 10.
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