Gravelbourg & District Tribune

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can be described as many things, but a warmonger!

 

The new defence update is called “Our North, Strong and Free”. What does it mean? An additional $9 billion to make more guns & ammunition, $18.4 billion for attack helicopters, $2.8 billion for cyber warfare, $2.7 billion for missiles, $9 billion for naval fleets, more artillery, battle tanks, armoured vehicles and attack drones. (Don’t you just love what drones are doing in Palestine?) Plus the feds announced further militarization of the Arctic and oceans. (The U.S. has Navy Seals. Are we going to train Arctic seals to blow up boats?)

 

This means Canada will increase military spending by $73 billion over 20 years to be included in the 2024 budget. This year the spending will be $44.2 billion. Shameful. And the Tories would increase that spending.

 

Who are we planning to invade? All the military hardware is for attacking and destroying infrastructure and killing people. We spend $1 billion on climate adaptation but $4 billion for the war in Ukraine. Does that make any sense? Maybe the better question is why should we invade another sovereign state? The only country that has ever invaded us was the U.S. Back then we were not yet called Canada (a British colony) and we won those disputes. That would not happen today.

 

The U.S. has bombed over 35 countries since 1945 and they would crush us. And they would not hesitate to bomb the shit out of us. Look what they are doing in Gaza! We could put our entire federal budget into military spending and it would still only take them 10 minutes to wipe us off the map. So why all this military spending!

 

It appears this is meant to appease the U.S. They want us to buy their military hardware and do some of their dirty work.

 

All things considered. Do we have any choice?