Canada’s defense budget is currently $20 billion a year which is less than 1% of its GDP. This is much less than the $600 billion a year the U.S. spends and the $6.5 billion a year the UK spends. Only 5 other countries of the 28 in NATO spend less. To join NATO each member country pledged to spend at least 2% of their GDP on military spending and defense and defend each other against threats from any non-member country. In a July 2016 U.S. Presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested that the United States would not defend NATO member countries who had failed to increase their military budgets to above 2% of Gross Domestic Product. France, Turkey, Germany, Canada, and Italy are countries that are currently spending less than 2% of their GDP on military defense.
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@9F5Z9CV2yrs2Y
@8YDBMKW3yrs3Y
It should stay how it is
Increase, but only if the mandate of the armed forces is also shifted towards mitigating the effects of climate change/ arctic sovereignty
@7G3G2W34yrs4Y
Decrease it a little bit.
@8L3S5RW4yrs4Y
Increase, but the focus of the nature of the military is changing. The Canadian Armed Forces should be refocused into a national public works program.
@99G8LK32yrs2Y
Let it not take away from social programs but allow for the defense against imperialist powers
@99FCFKQ2yrs2Y
Long-range ICBM nuclear weapons of our own would deter any threats to our sovereignty. There's no need for much beyond that.
@8VPPBPL4yrs4Y
Change priorities and put more focus on education and other social needs.
@7TRSKP94yrs4Y
Abolish the military, replace it with an actually productive infrastructure of government-funded workers.
@842VWLK3yrs3Y
decrease, but make sure the spending at least sustains the military
@8CHSC8Q5yrs5Y
Decrease - it is ridiculously excessive and some of that budget could be put to MUCH better use.
@8QDSNZY4yrs4Y
Decrease now as we are not in war
@98GP4C62yrs2Y
We should focus mainly on the issue of global warming and climate change before increasing military funding.
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