commitment to the 2% of GDP spending target. Not so with Canada. Canada only spends 1% of GDP. Will the push for more spending start to come in this meeting?
While I think that target is just plain dumb, I have no problem with increasing our spending on National Defence. The issue I have is we tend to do it very foolishly. Lets not get into the role of being strong armed into just supporting the American Military Industrial Complex. Lets have a buy Canadian - and I mean Canadian program. No more of having foreign owned companies set up branch offices in Canada to farm out a little of our procurements. Canada used to be a world leader in the field. Some of the first mass produced submarines were made in Montreal. During WWII we were a leader in Aerospace. Canada is still doing fairly well in small arms, and not too bad in road/offraod vehicles.