To start, Canada has been below our promised 2% of our GDP on military spending with NATO for years now, much to international criticism, so we should be meeting that as the bare minimum. But for us personally as a country, I believe that even that percentage is not enough. Canada has the longest coastline in the world, and it just so happens that we also sit right across from our number one biggest threat, a threat that patrols our north regularly with no consequence as we just sit and watch. Our navy is severely lacking, and pitiful. By far the number one most important thing we need to do right now as a nation is to buy some nucellar submarines capable of operating in our arctic, and that's just as a start, all of our navy need heavy work, especially now that the arctic is melting and people are talking about using the northwest passage as a trade route, how could we possibly hope to keep that area under our control with such abysmal capabilities? And the argument that we don't need to invest in our military because the US will take care of our problems for us is dumb and internationally selfish thinking. The US already has enough on their plate handling their own affairs and the affairs of countries that don't have the option to take care of themselves. We have the ability to take care of ourselves, but we don't because we've grown entitled and soft because we haven't faced any real threat in a while. And in all honesty, do you really want the US making all the decisions for us in OUR arctic? No, they're our waters and we should protect them as such. Take Australia for example, Australia has a very similar GDP, land mass, population, and structure of government to us, and yet unlike us they have successfully been pulling their weight for a long time; keeping their equipment modern and at good supply, and they also bought some nuclear subs not too long ago, and they don’t nearly have the problems we do with the arctic and Russia breathing down our neck, so we have no excuses. Our recent ordering of those F35s will only barely set us at the standard, but it is still a good step in the right direction, even though we should have had them 10 years ago. I also strongly believe that we need to invest in ICBM defense systems, for the fact that if Russia were to send nuclear ICBMs to the US, they would have to go over our skies. And I don't know about you but I believe we should be able to defend our nation in the case of a nuclear attack, because DEFENSE IS IMPORTANT, especially now that things are heating up in the world, it’s important we stay on our toes.