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Arithmetic of the Canadian Rearmament
Views: 135 2026-06-09 Canada is about to spend more on defense than at any time since the early Cold War. The bet is that guns can also be an industrial policy. The arithmetic, and the politics, are less obliging. For most of the past three decades, Canada treated its armed forces the way a homeowner treats the furnace: noticed only when it failed. Defense spending sagged to roughly 1% of GDP by 2014, half of what membership in NATO was supposed to require, and successive governments in Ottawa found the geography of three oceans and a friendly superpower to the …
