OTTAWA—Canada will raise military spending by more than $8 billion over the next five years under a revamped military strategy that still won’t hit NATO targets, but that the Trudeau government is pitching as a roadmap to ensure the military meets a “complex generational challenge.”
Entitled Our North, Strong and Free, the policy plan pledges to ramp up annual spending until the additional injection reaches about $1.9 billion in the fifth year, and commits $73 billion in new money over the next two decades to buy new gear and boost Canadian Forces recruitment to allow it to confront security challenges posed by climate change in the Arctic and more aggressive authoritarian regimes around the world.
Usual hot air. Climate Change! Climate Change! Climate Change! Transvestite Climate Change!
