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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@B45SGLP4wks4W
Increase, because of the times we are in. In any other time where Canadians are not threatened by our neighbors to the sout, we should only increase after we find ways to reduce our deficit
@B3CR8KH2mos2MO
I don't have a problem with spending more on the military but the bad decisions and the wasted money that results from them are abhorrent.
@9S7LSQ38mos8MO
Remove core military because its useless, cut RMCC and educational programs and put that money in special opps and where it would add value to canadians. The military is no place to train and teach people how to get fit.
@9D6GT9B2yrs2Y
Improve efficiency, cost control and remove layers of bureaucracy and there would be a hell of a lot of money left over to support our actual service people - the "boots on the ground".
@9BYFC6BNew Democratic2yrs2Y
The US takes care of that for us
@94HJSNH3yrs3Y
Increase for the workers, decrease for equipment
@8WFRGBH4yrs4Y
More participation of relationships with other countries
@8V5SWMN4yrs4Y
Increase, Our military is severely underfunded and we need to fund it in order to properly arm and supply our brave troops risking their lives
@97HHVXR2yrs2Y
Increase, Canada should respect the NATO standard of 2% of the GDP on the military minimum
@98B6SV52yrs2Y
Only to defend the country, no Canadian should go to war for other countries, or organization.
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