• Avid Amoeba
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    1 month ago

    Was gonna say, we fight China, Russia and the US (just reusing the framing) with production. With an economy that is (socially) stable and productive enough to make the various commodities that we currently can only import. You can’t have security while external players could disrupt your economy with a few keystrokes.

    Production of defense commodities is downstream from that since those outputs are used in defense production. Even if you use defense production as a demand driver. If the economomy isn’t stable and productive we can’t sustain any sort of hot war, should we need to.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 month ago

      Exactly, the best way to ensure security of Canada is by investing in self reliance. We should be building out domestic industries to build infrastructure, housing, provide healthcare, education, and so on. That’s what makes the country strong, what leads to social cohesion, and genuine sovereignty.