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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I think the government should have a budget every 10-15 years, so the government doesn't end up giving the military millions of dollars in like 5 years and spend it all
Military shouldn’t really be much of a thing. We don’t need war
Increase funding and give larger roles to the special operations groups. Maintain current funding for the regular military. I feel a small group of highly trained soldiers can be much more effective in neutralizing threats than drawn out wars.
only in areas where it is needed
I personally think we should just invest a little bit more money but not too much because Canada luckily does not have too many enemy countries unlike some other countries like U.S. and Russia. We should invest a little bit more just incase something bad were to happen.
We should look at ways to work with NATO nations to decrease procurement costs
Canada should revamp it's military doctrine and redefine it's purpose
@firozsasi4yrs4Y
Technology platform should be adopted.
Pay the Canadian military more, raise the wage for our soldiers and troops. Spend less money for other countries' militia and stop selling weapons to the middle east.
I am uneducated o this question.
Does not matter at this peroid of time
Our army barely fights in any wars and we are in peace with every country so there is no need for military spending which could be spent on helping citizens
Make the reforms necessary to ensure confidence in the organization again. Tackle problems of systemic discrimination, as well as sexual harassment within it, which have plagued the organization's reputation (ex. Somalia Affair, Jonathan Vance investigation.) and make it a desirable place to serve again, and then we can talk about what spending measures are necessary, as we can't just throw money at it if there's a dwindling population of soldiers who are dissatisfied.
if people realized the damage wars did and learned from the past they would learn that nobody should have militarism - military forces. look at where military powers etc... got us.
Increase if within our financial parameters, but well within the amount provided to other services.
Increase, but with a focus on peaceful objectives
@9CMFTM62yrs2Y
Yes, but only in extremely dangerous situations
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