Does anyone care that Canada relies on the U.S. for our defence? Justin Trudeau knows that voters aren’t really interested
When we connect virtually, Harries looks like a weathered soldier sitting tall at his home in Kingston, Ont. He’s ready to rumble. And it’s not difficult to imagine Harries, as he says, “falling out a Hercules, after a bulldozer, in the dark, in the Arctic, to build a runway.” Retired but still in the game, Harries coaches the Royal Military College’s men’s rugby team.
Since then, Canadians’ appetite for defence spending has waned. We now spend roughly 1.4 per cent of our GDP on defence; in 1960, that number was 4.2 per cent. We have a country that has given Ukraine more military resources in a year than it’s given the Canadian forces in the last decade.We’ve been lucky so far. Harries’ realpolitik is jarring. Why would the American military be OK with this arrangement?
It all feels so fragile. Canada’s minister of National Defence, Anita Anand, seems capable; can’t she get us back on track?
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