Gravelbourg & District Tribune

Our military spending will jump to 2% of our GDP. What for? So we can become an exporter of war and mass killing? Who are we planning to invade?

 

If you buy a grain truck that means you intend to use it to haul grain. If you buy American weapons of mass destruction that means you will use it for… I’ll let you fill in the gap.

 

The only country that would ever invade Canada is the U.S. of A. You can take our provincial and federal budgets and put them all into the military and it would not be a drop in the ocean compare to the U.S. military budget. They would crush us in 15 minutes.

 

John F. Kennedy created the U.S. Peace Corps. Americans could serve their country and the world in peaceful developments. It was revolutionary. That is what Canada needs. Mind you the military industrial complex did assassinate Kennedy for promoting peace initiatives. So maybe… but I digress.

 

With climate change advancing rapidly in the north we need help fighting forest fires, floods, evacuations and a host of other natural disasters that will befall us. A Canadian Peace Corps would be the perfect tool. Not the military. And, tell me, where are we going to export and/or use our military hardware? Oh yeah. I forgot we already ship a lot of that stuff to Israel to use in their genocide against Palestinians.

 

Global Affairs Canada confirmed recently that Canadian companies sold $18,9 million of military goods to Israel in 2024. I’m sorry to say but I don’t feel any kind of Canadian pride knowing we’re arming an Israel soldier who shoots kids ‘as a hobby.’ Their words. Not mine.

 

Carney is cutting taxes, wants to build social housing; wants to build out-dated pipelines and now wants to double our military spending. Where’s the money coming from? Is it from the health care budget? Maybe we can cut the education department like the orange guy is doing down south? What are you going to use to build for public houses? Paper Mache!

 

There must be a piped piper for war because most of the ‘developed’ world is being led down the path of more military spending. Where is our common sense. The weapons today can wipe out all life on the planet. Is that all we can think of doing?