NATIONAL PULSE – Support for Canadian military readiness rising
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Percentage of Canadians prioritizing military preparedness has more than doubled over past decade
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE
March 5, 2024 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been on the defensive over Canada’s defence spending in the days after a trip to Ukraine and Poland. This is not the first time that some have criticized Canada for committing to, but not meeting, the two per cent of GDP spending target for NATO members. The war between Russia and Ukraine has only brightened the spotlight.
Back at home, Trudeau now faces a public with a growing desire to see the government to invest in military preparedness.
New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds the proportion of Canadians choosing their nation’s military preparedness and presence on the world stage as a top priority rising from 12 per cent to 29 per cent in the past decade. This, as the most-chosen priority – building better trade ties with international partners – has dropped from 57 to 43 per cent.
Slightly more than half say Canada should increase its spending level to two percent or beyond (53%), while 30 per cent would maintain the current spending amount (1.38% of GDP) and 16 per cent would reduce spending even further.
Perhaps most notably, seven-in-10 of those who say they would support the leading Conservatives would spend to or beyond the two per cent recommendation. As such, two major factors may influence Canada’s defence spending future: which government is in power in both Canada and the United States.
No Canadian government has hit the two per cent mark in defence spending since 1990 and, indeed, spending under Trudeau has increased after dropping to its lowest point in modern history under the previous Conservative government led by Stephen Harper.
Despite this, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has said his potential government would work towards the NATO target, partially by cutting foreign aid. Meanwhile, a potential return of former president Donald Trump might increase the pressure on either a Conservative or Liberal government to pony up.
Trump recently threatened that if re-elected his government would not defend underspending NATO allies from Russian aggression. Overall, support for spending two per cent of GDP on defence rises from 53 to 65 per cent when Trump’s hypothetical is considered. This includes a two-fold increase among women between the ages of 18 and 34, from 22 to 47 per cent, and double-digit jumps among most age and gender groups.
More Key Findings:
- At least half of Canadians say that Canada is “falling behind” with respect to its military power (58%), diplomatic influence (57%), and trade competitiveness (50%). One area where Canadians largely feel Canada is “keeping up” is in foreign aid (48%).
- Among current CPC supporters, equal numbers say Canada’s focus should be on improving trade ties (48%) and military preparedness (46%), while few care to focus on foreign aid (6%). Those who support the Liberals are divided equally between prioritizing aid (38%) versus trade (38%), while would-be NDP voters lean toward improving foreign aid delivery (48%).
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In Canada we have three Cold War relics DEW, TREE, and MID-CANADA LINES and were mothballed rusting homes for polar bears and ptarmigans. The parliament wants to spend $5 billion to resurrect these early warning radar lines which for years served no purpose. Now Trudeau wants to add $2.5 billion on drones. History tells us that the Hadrian, Great Wall of China, and the Maginot Lines were useless against the Picts, Mongols, and the Germans.
The drones like the cold war relics which provided jobs for the military will not feed mainstream Canadian families. A war of thermobaric, nuclear, hypersonic weapons from outer space in which the world will be destroyed will not be stopped by walls, it will be stopped by the truth not by propaganda. The Media said nothing, the people said nothing about this waste, the history of anti Russian propaganda has done its job.
The war that Trudeau and the G 7 were provoking from a former Nazi retreat in Bavaria, protected by thousands of paramilitaries, is a plan to send all of us into the Stone Age. Every day Trudeau tells us that he is building for the future while planning for war with fabrication, walls and slogans.
The neo-feudal conditions of Canada’s economy, infrastructure, healthcare, and homelessness desperately needs this $7.5 billion infusion to bring Canada into the 21st century. Furthermore, Canada’s education system is sliding into neo-feudalism, where critical thinking is censored as it was during the Inquisition.
The censored Media is parroting the government line on world conflicts, while truth tellers like Assange and Snowden who expose the propaganda are jailed or exiled. Academics are silenced or fired from universities for questioning the government propaganda narrative and telling us that Nazis are not “freedom fighters” as defined by the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland the grand daughter of Michael Chomiak, who collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust are the drum leaders of “the neo-feudal Gang of 7
“The Nazi legacy in the Ukraine lives on in the UK and Canada. The grandchildren of those men have not rejected the sordid history of their ancestors, they have embraced it. Keep this in mind when you consider the exhortations from Great Britain and Canada to embrace the Ukrainian cause. There is a Nazi lineage behind it.” ( https://sonar21.com/understanding-the-ukrainian-ss-galicia-division-helps-explain-uk-and-canadian-support-for-ukraine/ )
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