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Carney says Canada too reliant on U.S. for defence as he hikes military spending

by Teever on 6/9/25, 5:57 PM with 3 comments

• by incomingpain on 6/9/25, 6:11 PM

  Canada doesnt meet their military spending obligations. Canada is essentially doubling military spending in less than a year; all of which heads into deficit spending.

  The Canadian military already had a roughly 10,000 job openings relative to under 100,000 troops. Now they have a 110,000 job opening?

  Canada has no real cyber army of any kind. Unlike practically all other countries. Perhaps we're going to get one now?

  Canada has about the capacity of 5,000/troops per year can go through basic training.

  The conclusion I'm making is that they must send this spending toward civilians. Switzerland for example has most men take home a fully automatic rifle + training + ammo + range days and training. I really dont see any other way for the military to spend this money.

• by jleyank on 6/9/25, 7:13 PM

  If this is done properly, the money has a 2x effect: creates jobs in the domestic defence industry, collects taxes from those jobs to spend elsewhere. And "stuff" is useful for both military and diplomatic purposes. Shoulder launched weaponry, drones, APCs, arms/ammo even artillery/shells. There also seems to be a military pay raise which might help recruiting. And more boots on the ground will provide more assistance when the bloody fires burn. They have extra steel/aluminum due to tariffs and already make much of this.

  With luck, they'll help Europe rearm - more manufacturing to trade. Gotta be more to a country than digging sh*t out of the ground.