- Canada - $55b in Military Spending, Am I Reading that Right

Posted: 10:43 AM on October 18, 2011
Harper’s team keeps hands off $35-billion shipbuilding hot potato
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/harpers-team-keeps-hands-off-35-billion-shipbuilding-hot-potato/article2203643/

Hopefully what all Canadians will not allow Harper to dodge is, of course, not where these ships will be built but

why do we need $25billion in "combat" vessels

when you combine this with $30 billion for 65 F-35 combat fighters

The real question is what is Canada's military objectives and who are we planning to go to war with.


Isn't there better things to spend $50 billion dollars upon.

Prediction:

- One will receive a $25-billion contract to build combat vessels:
Halifax - that's a no-brain'r

- $8-billion to build ice breakers and a naval supply ship:
Vancouver - of course

- $2-billion for smaller vessels:
Parry Sound—Muskoka - you tell me

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