What a moronic point of view. Would you rather let our enemies roll over us? To think we aren’t in serious danger right now displays a total lack of awareness. What i want to see and tracked is Canada not spending money in the US.
You’re presenting a false choice.
Not only is diplomacy better for the people who live in countries on both sides - mostly just people trying to get by like you and me - but it’s also far better environmentally and economically to not pour 1/20th of our entire economic output into murder machines.
Putting aside the fact that it wasn’t true, Iran was (ostensibly!) attacked for trying to develop nuclear weapons capabilities. Why would our adversaries not see our rapid militarization as a reason to put themselves on a “war footing” too, rather than a diplomatic one?
Cool. Then you should really care about it done without corruption and waste, right? Because that’s what about half of this long article is about.
Absolutely. But, if the choice is doing it with corruption and waste versus talking about how to do it without, and not actually doing it, I’m going to have to come down the side of the former. So how, specifically, do we do it without corruption and waste, immediately?
I don’t know, I’m just a citizen. My civics education tells me that holding the government’s feet to the fire with critical articles like this one should have some effect by creating a public sphere where the government doesn’t have the cover of obscurity. Informed citizenry and all that.
Good article and an important conversation. Would anyone really be shocked by a Liberal government engaged in cronyism, conflict of interest, and ethics scandals? And the way our public has been frightened into accepting massive increases in military spending while civil servants needed for scrutiny and oversight are being thinned is a perfect recipe for corruption.
This article is ridiculously weird. The global conflict has already arrived. Russia has invaded Ukraine. China’s war games around Taiwan and the rest of the Indo-Pacific, the US/Israel war in Iran … It’s important that Canada invests in its own defense industry and those of its allies, as someone has already said, rather than in buying from the US or China. But Canada has no other choice than investing in its defense.
Cool. Then you should really care about it done without corruption and waste, right?
Also, don’t you think that if the pro-peace crowd shuts the fuck up, and the only criticism of Carney’s policies comes from the Right then we would be entering a very hazardous territory, with the center being dragged ever rightward?
The article is incredibly useful from a systemic point of view because it allows us to calibrate the tension between maintaining and building security and the maintenance of internal democratic legitimacy. If you’re going to ask people to defend something, they get a say on what that something is supposed to be. People do get a say when the government goes all in on defence while cutting services. This is not a wartime command economy, nobody has said it is.
