I was disappointed, but hardly surprised, that the Trudeau Liberals recently bucked the NATO trend and decided to go ahead with a series of cuts to our already emasculated Canadian Armed Forces. This comes after revelations that Trudeau quietly informed NATO that Canada will “never” be able to boost its GDP spending on defence to the promised NATO minimum of two per cent. All this while our Chief of the Defence Staff recently declared that Canada is “at war” with Russia and China.
But Canada’s perennially derelict military funding in an increasingly volatile world is not ultimately the fault of our defence-dollar-averse politicians or their voting public.
The problem, frankly, is the United States.
